Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] staging: vt6655: fix camelcase in bShortSlotTime

[Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 11:49:29PM +0200, Tommaso Merciai wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 06:43:00AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 11:35:15PM +0200, Tommaso Merciai wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 05:26:14PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 06:25:18PM +0200, Tommaso Merciai wrote:
> > > > > Replace camel case variable bShortSlotTime with snake case
> > > > > variable b_short_slot_time.
> > > > 
> > > > That is a very odd variable name.  Why did you pick that one?
> > > > 
> > > > What deos it mean?
> > > > 
> > > > You do understand where the original naming format came from here, and
> > > > what it was trying to represent, right?  If not, please go read up on
> > > > it:
> > > > 	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation
> > > > 
> > > > That style is not used in Linux, and so, when converting from it, do not
> > > > attempt to keep the same style present here, that is kind of pointless,
> > > > don't you agree?
> > > 
> > >   You are definitely right. What do you think about "short_slot_time"?
> > 
> > "time" implies that this will hold a value of time, right?
> > 
> > What exactly does this variable do?  That might help in naming it
> > better.
> 
>   Is a boolean variable, if true short slot time mode is enabled, false 
>   not right?
>   A good solution could be: "short_slot_mode"? What do you think about?

No.  That's a confusing name.  What is a short slot mode anyway?

regards,
dan carpenter