Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: simplify if-else block by removing unnecessary braces

Julia Lawall <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.outreachy,dev.linux.lists.linux-staging,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On Tue, 25 Mar 2025, Abraham Samuel Adekunle wrote:

> The if-else block contained braces around single statements, which are
> unnecessary according to the Linux kernel coding style.
>
> Remove the redundant braces to improve code readability and maintain
> consistency with the rest of the codebase.
>
> Reported by checkpatch:
>
> WARNING: braces {} are not necessary for any arm of this statement
>
> Signed-off-by: Abraham Samuel Adekunle <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Julia Lawall <[email protected]>

> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c
> index 0ed420f3d096..53d4c113b19c 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c
> @@ -988,11 +988,10 @@ void rtw_macaddr_cfg(struct device *dev, u8 *mac_addr)
>  	if (is_broadcast_ether_addr(mac) || is_zero_ether_addr(mac)) {
>  		addr = of_get_property(np, "local-mac-address", &len);
>
> -		if (addr && len == ETH_ALEN) {
> +		if (addr && len == ETH_ALEN)
>  			ether_addr_copy(mac_addr, addr);
> -		} else {
> +		else
>  			eth_random_addr(mac_addr);
> -		}
>  	}
>  }
>
> --
> 2.34.1
>
>
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.