On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 03:09:38PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 23:02 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 02:54:37PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > > > drivers/media/rc/fintek-cir.c: if ((chip != 0x0408) || (chip != 0x0804)) > > It'd probably help if you were to supply more analysis as to what the > > issues you think you're seeing are - in the cases quoted above > > (especially the last one) there's no obvious bug without further > > analysis. > Likely the || should be &&. > if (val != foo || test != bar) > is always true when foo != bar Right, but you need to look at the code and explain why this is a problem. For example, the case I've left quoted above reads to me like the intention is "If the chip isn't one I know doesn't like this then let's do it" which is a perfectly sensible thing to write.