Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8712: fixed multiple line derefence issue

From: Prasant Jalan
Date: Mon Apr 03 2017 - 02:08:34 EST


On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-04-03 at 09:43 +0530, Prasant Jalan wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 12:03 AM, Prasant Jalan <prasant.jalan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Checkpatch emits WARNING: Avoid multiple line dereference.
>> >
>> > Trivial indentation improvement helps fix the checkpatch warning.
> []
>> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_xmit.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_xmit.c
> []
>> > @@ -416,15 +417,14 @@ static sint xmitframe_addmic(struct _adapter *padapter,
>> > &pframe[10], 6);
>> > }
>> > if (pqospriv->qos_option == 1)
>> > - priority[0] = (u8)pxmitframe->
>> > - attrib.priority;
>> > + priority[0] = (u8)pxmitframe->attrib.priority;
>> > r8712_secmicappend(&micdata, &priority[0], 4);
>> > payload = pframe;
>> > for (curfragnum = 0; curfragnum < pattrib->nr_frags;
>> > curfragnum++) {
>> > payload = (u8 *)RND4((addr_t)(payload));
>> > - payload = payload + pattrib->
>> > - hdrlen + pattrib->iv_len;
>> > + payload = payload + pattrib->hdrlen +
>> > + pattrib->iv_len;
>
> += would be shorter

Hi Joe,

Looks like back to school for me for overlooking such a trivial thing.

Thanks for the pointer, I will update the patch and resend.


Regards, Prasant