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Date:	Fri, 24 Jul 2015 06:06:21 -0700
From:	Joshua Clayton <stillcompiling@...il.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	Florian Schilhabel <florian.c.schilhabel@...glemail.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	Tapasweni Pathak <tapaswenipathak@...il.com>,
	Vaishali Thakkar <vthakkar1994@...il.com>,
	Nitin Kuppelur <nitinkuppelur@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] staging: rtl8712: style fix:

Dan,
On Friday, July 24, 2015 01:52:27 PM Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Write a better subject line.
> 
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 09:53:18PM -0700, Joshua Clayton wrote:
> > change instances SupportedRates to compliant and sane "rates"
> > This change in no way harms readability, and brings several lines
> > under the 80 character limit.
> 
> Yeah, but it does a some other stuff as well like removing casts.
I apologize. I thought it would make sense to double up (while I'm in there 
I'll just...).

> 
> > -		while ((pcur_bss->SupportedRates[i] != 0) &&
> > -			(pcur_bss->SupportedRates[i] != 0xFF)) {
> > -			rate = pcur_bss->SupportedRates[i] & 0x7F;
> > +		while (pcur_bss->rates[i] && (pcur_bss->rates[i] != 0xFF)) {
> > +			rate = pcur_bss->rates[i] & 0x7F;
> > 
> >  			if (rate > max_rate)
> >  			
> >  				max_rate = rate;
> >  			
> >  			wrqu->bitrate.fixed = 0;	/* no auto select */
> 
> I actually like the != 0 here because we're talking about the number
> zero.  It should look like this:
> 
> 		while (pcur_bss->rates[i] != 0 &&
> 		       pcur_bss->rates[i] != 0xFF) {
OK.

> 
> But removing the parens is something for a different patch.  I use a
> script to help review these so when you mix different changes together
> it means there is more manual review work for me.
Sorry about that.
I'll split or drop it in the next version
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter

Joshua

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