Re: [PATCH] 3c59x: Don't assign when a comparison is intended

[Wolfram Sang]

On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 09:50:56PM +0100, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In drivers/net/3c59x.c::vortex_probe1() we have this code:
> >
> >        if (gendev) {
> >                if ((pdev = DEVICE_PCI(gendev))) {
> >                        print_name = pci_name(pdev);
> >                }
> >
> >                if ((edev = DEVICE_EISA(gendev))) {
> >                        print_name = dev_name(&edev->dev);
> >                }
> >        }
> >
> > I believe these assignments were intended to be comparisons.
> > If I'm correct, then here's a patch to fix that up.
> 
> I don't think so. Look at the extra brackets.
> 
> The code can also written as:
> 
> pdev = DEVICE_PCI(gendev);
> if(pdev)
>   print_name = pci_name(pdev);

... which looks much better and could be worth a patch as well.

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