Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] staging: vt6655: fix camelcase in bShortSlotTime

From: Tommaso Merciai
Date: Mon Sep 27 2021 - 17:35:24 EST


On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 05:26:14PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 06:25:18PM +0200, Tommaso Merciai wrote:
> > Replace camel case variable bShortSlotTime with snake case
> > variable b_short_slot_time.
>
> That is a very odd variable name. Why did you pick that one?
>
> What deos it mean?
>
> You do understand where the original naming format came from here, and
> what it was trying to represent, right? If not, please go read up on
> it:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation
>
> That style is not used in Linux, and so, when converting from it, do not
> attempt to keep the same style present here, that is kind of pointless,
> don't you agree?

You are definitely right. What do you think about "short_slot_time"?

Thanks,

Tommaso
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h