[PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at armlinux.org.uk
Tue Feb 21 05:55:41 PST 2017


On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 01:02:21PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Boris Brezillon
> <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:03:45 +0200
> > Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >> 1. For example,
> >>
> >> #define ATMEL_NFC_CMD(pos, cmd)                        ((cmd) <<
> >> (((pos) * 8) + 2))
> >
> > Well, I like to explicitly put parenthesis even when operator
> > precedence guarantees the order of the calculation ('*' is preceding
> > '+').
> 
> That's my point. I'm not a LISP programmer.
> Personally I think it makes readability worse.

+1.  I find unnecessary parenthesis is an effective obfuscation technique.

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