Re: [PATCH v2] staging: rtl8712: Change type and name of local variable

[Julia Lawall]

On Thu, 21 Mar 2024, Ayush Tiwari wrote:

> Change data type of local variable blnPending from u8 to bool and
> renamed it to len_padding since it only assumes 0 or 1 values and
> seems to add a padding based on wr_sz. This change also address the
> checkpatch warning "Avoid Camelcase".
>
> Signed-off-by: Ayush Tiwari <ayushtiw0110@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v2: Changed values of blnPending from 0/1 to false/true
> and renamed blnPending to len_padding

I don't think "len" is a good choice.  That suggests length, which would
be an integer.  I suspect that bln is an abbreviation of boolean, and the
while thing should go.  But when you remove that, you get pending, not
padding.

julia

>
>  drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_cmd.c | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_cmd.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_cmd.c
> index bb7db96ed821..f499bbbf5bf5 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_cmd.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_cmd.c
> @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ int r8712_cmd_thread(void *context)
>  		pcmd = cmd_hdl_filter(padapter, pcmd);
>  		if (pcmd) { /* if pcmd != NULL, cmd will be handled by f/w */
>  			struct dvobj_priv *pdvobj = &padapter->dvobjpriv;
> -			u8 blnPending = 0;
> +			bool len_padding = false;
>  			u16 cmdcode = pcmd->cmdcode;
>
>  			pcmdpriv->cmd_issued_cnt++;
> @@ -294,12 +294,12 @@ int r8712_cmd_thread(void *context)
>  						     0x0000ffff);
>  			if (pdvobj->ishighspeed) {
>  				if ((wr_sz % 512) == 0)
> -					blnPending = 1;
> +					len_padding = true;
>  			} else {
>  				if ((wr_sz % 64) == 0)
> -					blnPending = 1;
> +					len_padding = true;
>  			}
> -			if (blnPending) { /* 32 bytes for TX Desc - 8 offset */
> +			if (len_padding) { /* 32 bytes for TX Desc - 8 offset */
>  				pdesc->txdw0 |= cpu_to_le32(((TXDESC_SIZE +
>  						OFFSET_SZ + 8) << OFFSET_SHT) &
>  						0x00ff0000);
> @@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ int r8712_cmd_thread(void *context)
>  					       (pcmdpriv->cmd_seq << 24));
>  			pcmdbuf += 2; /* 8 bytes alignment */
>  			memcpy((u8 *)pcmdbuf, pcmd->parmbuf, pcmd->cmdsz);
> -			if (blnPending)
> +			if (len_padding)
>  				wr_sz += 8;   /* Append 8 bytes */
>  			r8712_write_mem(padapter, RTL8712_DMA_H2CCMD, wr_sz,
>  					(u8 *)pdesc);
> --
> 2.40.1
>
>
>