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Message-ID: <f4b889c8-9816-47e9-88e1-2acc9c169b8a@moroto.mountain>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 11:36:07 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>
Cc: Ayush Tiwari <ayushtiw0110@...il.com>, Larry.Finger@...inger.net,
	florian.c.schilhabel@...glemail.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
	outreachy@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] staging: rtl8712: rename tmpVal to pct_val

On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 09:18:08AM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2024, Ayush Tiwari wrote:
> 
> > Rename local variable tmpVal to pct_val in function process_link_qual
> > to give intuitive meaning to variable and match the common kernel
> > coding style.
> 
> I don't think that the patch with the name avg_val was accepted, so this
> patch has to replace tmpVal by pct_val, as you say in the subject line.
> 
> Also, the comment says:
> 
> /* <1> Showed on UI for user, in percentage. */
> 
> I still have the impression that the value calculated here is an average.
> Total num is just incremented:
> 
> if (sqd->total_num++ >= PHY_LINKQUALITY_SLID_WIN_MAX)
> 
> while total_val is updated with a new value.

Oh, yeah.  My bad.  I misunderstood the comment.  The original value is
in percent.  prframe->u.hdr.attrib.signal_qual.  It's set in
query_rx_phy_status().

Sorry about that.

regards,
dan carpenter


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