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SubjectRe: [PATCH 03/11] aiptek: Fix probable mask then right shift defects
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On Monday, October 27, 2014 10:56:54 AM Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 07:44 -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > Hi Joe,
>
> Hello Dmitry.
>
> > On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:24:59PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > Precedence of & and >> is not the same and is not left to right.
> > > shift has higher precedence and should be done after the mask.
> >
> > Looking at the protocol description the current code is exactly right.
> > We want to "move" button bits first as in packet type 1 they are in a
> > different place than in other packets.
> >
> > I'll take a patch that adds parenthesis around shifts to make clear it
> > is intended.
>
> I think it's more sensible to do the shift first to a
> temporary then direct comparisons.
>
> Perhaps something like this cleanup that also uses
> a temporary for aiptek->curSetting and
> !!(foo & mask) instead of ((foo & mask) != 0) ? 1 : 0;

Unless you have the device I'd rather kept the changes (which are mostly
cosmetic in nature and do not fix any bugs) to a minimum.

Thanks.

--
Dmitry


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