linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] staging: rtl8192e: renamed variable nDataRate

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Message-ID: <2023112622-jigsaw-scrambler-d385@gregkh>
Date:   Sun, 26 Nov 2023 10:29:16 +0000
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Gary Rookard <garyrookard@...tmail.org>
Cc:     philipp.g.hortmann@...il.com, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] staging: rtl8192e: renamed variable nDataRate

On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 05:34:31PM -0500, Gary Rookard wrote:
> -u16  tx_count_to_data_rate(struct rtllib_device *ieee, u8 nDataRate)
> +u16  tx_count_to_data_rate(struct rtllib_device *ieee, u8 n_data_rate)

Why are you keeping the "n"?  It's not needed, right?  Remember, these
were written in "Hungarian notation" which uses the variable name to
denote the type of the variable, so "n" means "number" perhaps?  So it
can be dropped.

thanks,

greg k-h