Re: [PATCH 2/2] serial: cascade needless conditionals

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, André Goddard Rosa wrote:
>  	if (flags == UPF_SPD_HI)
>  		altbaud = 57600;
> -	if (flags == UPF_SPD_VHI)
> +	else if (flags == UPF_SPD_VHI)
>  		altbaud = 115200;
> -	if (flags == UPF_SPD_SHI)
> +	else if (flags == UPF_SPD_SHI)
>  		altbaud = 230400;
> -	if (flags == UPF_SPD_WARP)
> +	else if (flags == UPF_SPD_WARP)
>  		altbaud = 460800;

This changes code behaviour if more than one bit is set (which might never
happen for all I know...).  You should invert the order of the tests if you
want to make sure it is side-effect-free. 

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  Henrique Holschuh
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