From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:13:29 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] wlan-ng: clean up prism2sta_inf_chinforesults() Message-Id: <20130227221329.GR9189@mwanda> List-Id: References: <20130227051206.GA22703@longonot.mountain> In-Reply-To: <20130227051206.GA22703@longonot.mountain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:42:23PM +0100, walter harms wrote: > but i am missing the point why where are two counters. > i is simple. it is used to check the bitfield hw->channel_info.results.scanchannels > n is increased only the when a bit is set. So it would be more easy to simply > count the bits and run the loop about that number. > But i can also imagine that the bitfield act as "enable" and the author actualy > should read &inf->info.chinforesult.result[i]; > > perhaps i am missing the point, could someone tell me were i am wrong ? > Reading your email again, I can see what you mean. I don't have the hardware though or any more info than you do. I can only assume that the original code works. My patch doesn't change anything or introduce any bugs that weren't there in the original. regards, dan carpenter