Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: rts5208: Rewrite redundant if statement to improve code style

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Wed Jul 17 2019 - 04:49:31 EST


On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 04:12:44PM +0200, Tobias Nießen wrote:
> Am 26.06.2019 um 16:56 schrieb Dan Carpenter:
> > Both these patches seem fine.
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 04:28:56PM +0200, Tobias Nießen wrote:
> >> This commit uses the fact that
> >>
> >> if (a) {
> >> if (b) {
> >> ...
> >> }
> >> }
> >>
> >> can instead be written as
> >>
> >> if (a && b) {
> >> ...
> >> }
> >>
> >> without any change in behavior, allowing to decrease the indentation
> >> of the contained code block and thus reducing the average line length.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Tobias Nießen <tobias.niessen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Signed-off-by: Sabrina Gaube <sabrina-gaube@xxxxxx>
> >
> > Signed-off-by is like signing a legal document that you didn't put any
> > of SCO's secret UNIXWARE source code into your patch or do other illegal
> > activities. Everyone who handles a patch is supposed to Sign it.
> >
> > It's weird to see Sabrina randomly signing your patches. Probably there
> > is a more appropriate kind of tag to use as well or instead such as
> > Co-Developed-by, Reviewed-by or Suggested-by.
> >
> > regards,
> > dan carpenter
> >
>
> Thank you, Dan. This patch series is a mandatory part of a course
> Sabrina and I are taking at university. We were told to add
> Signed-off-by for both of us. I can add Co-Developed-by if that helps?

Yes. It does help.

regards,
dan carpenter