Re: [PATCH 04/32] staging: wfx: remove "burst" mechanism

[Jérôme Pouiller]

On Thursday 2 April 2020 15:05:26 CEST Dan Carpenter wrote:
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>                             ^^^^^^^^^
> Not related to this this patch but this confused me initially.  UINT_MAX
> would be more readable.
> 
> The other unrelated question I had about this function was:
> 
>    402          /* search for a winner using edca params */
>    403          for (i = 0; i < IEEE80211_NUM_ACS; ++i) {
>                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> IEEE80211_NUM_ACS is 4.
> 
>    404                  int queued;
>    405
>    406                  edca = &wvif->edca_params[i];
>    407                  queued = wfx_tx_queue_get_num_queued(&wvif->wdev->tx_queue[i],
>    408                                  tx_allowed_mask);
>    409                  if (!queued)
>    410                          continue;
>    411                  *total += queued;
>    412                  score = ((edca->aifs + edca->cw_min) << 16) +
>    413                          ((edca->cw_max - edca->cw_min) *
>    414                           (get_random_int() & 0xFFFF));
>    415                  if (score < best && (winner < 0 || i != 3)) {
>                                                            ^^^^^^
> 
> Why do we not want winner to be 3?  It's unrelated to the patch but
> there should be a comment next to that code probably.
> 
>    416                          best = score;
>    417                          winner = i;
>    418                  }
>    419          }

Indeed. In add, this code is useless. That's why I drop this code in
patch 22/32.

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Jérôme Pouiller