linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/5] staging: ks7010: Factor out repeated code into function 'ks_wlan

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Message-ID: <20180301063721.GD4059@eros>
Date:   Thu, 1 Mar 2018 17:37:21 +1100
From:   "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>
To:     Quytelda Kahja <quytelda@...alin.org>
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, wsa@...-dreams.de,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] staging: ks7010: Factor out repeated code into
 function 'ks_wlan_cap()'.

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 09:19:09PM -0800, Quytelda Kahja wrote:
> The code that generates a WLAN capability mask is repeated in five
> functions.  This change refactors that code into a new function, which is
> called now in each of those functions.

Perhaps in future something like:

Code to generate the WLAN capability mask is duplicated five times

Add helper function to generate WLAN capability mask, refactor code to
use newly defined function.


See Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst section 2 for more info.

	2) Describe your changes

Hope this helps,
Tobin.