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Message-ID: <20091218184146.GE2909@kroah.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:41:46 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To: Justin Madru <jdm64@...ab.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...e.de, error27@...il.com,
ray-lk@...rabbit.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: s5k3e2fx.c: simplify complexity by factoring
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:52:10PM -0800, Justin Madru wrote:
> the code was looping, seting s_move[i] to the following calculations
>
> if (actual_step >= 0)
> s_move[i] = ((((i + 1) * gain + 0x200) - (i * gain + 0x200)) / 0x400);
> else
> s_move[i] = ((((i + 1) * gain - 0x200) - (i * gain - 0x200)) / 0x400);
>
> but, this code redues to the expression
> s_move[i] = gain >> 10;
>
> The reason for the complexity was to generate a step function with
> integer division and rounding to land on specific values. But these calculations
> can be simplified to the following code:
>
> gain = ((actual_step << 10) / 5) >> 10;
> for (i = 0; i <= 4; i++)
> s_move[i] = gain;
Care to resend this with a Signed-off-by: line, and add the reviewed-by
line that was requested by Ray?
thanks,
greg k-h
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