Re: [PATCH] average: Clarify the restrictions

From: Bruno Randolf
Date: Wed Jun 01 2022 - 03:14:53 EST


On 01/06/2022 07:57, Jui-Tse Huang wrote:
There is several restrictions in the EWMA helper macro that the
developers should take care of, but the comment does not mentioned yet,
thus, this patch clarify the restrictions.

Signed-off-by: Jui-Tse Huang <juitse.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/average.h | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/average.h b/include/linux/average.h
index a1a8f09631ce..1618f6519c3d 100644
--- a/include/linux/average.h
+++ b/include/linux/average.h
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@
* precision and fall-off coefficient determined at compile-time
* and built into the generated helper funtions.
*
+ * This implementation supports upto 30 bits of precition, and for

spelling: up to ... precision

+ * usage concern, only the api of fetching non-fractional part is
+ * provided for now.

spelling: "API for"

wording: remove "and for usage concern", just ", and only the API for" would be enough.

Thank you,
bruno