Re: [PATCH v2] staging: rtl8712: Fix CamelCase warnings

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 03:44:40PM +0530, Sathish Kumar wrote:
> This patch fixes the checkpatch.pl warnings like:
> CHECK: Avoid CamelCase: <blnEnableRxFF0Filter>
> +   u8 blnEnableRxFF0Filter;
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sathish Kumar <skumark1902@gmail.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
>     - Remove the "bln" prefix
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8712/drv_types.h   | 2 +-
>  drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_cmd.c | 2 +-
>  drivers/staging/rtl8712/xmit_linux.c  | 4 ++--
>  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/drv_types.h b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/drv_types.h
> index a44d04effc8b..4de3aad08242 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/drv_types.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/drv_types.h
> @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ struct _adapter {
>  	struct iw_statistics iwstats;
>  	int pid; /*process id from UI*/
>  	struct work_struct wk_filter_rx_ff0;
> -	u8 blnEnableRxFF0Filter;
> +	u8 enable_rx_ff0_filter;

Shouldn't this be a boolean?

>  	spinlock_t lock_rx_ff0_filter;
>  	const struct firmware *fw;
>  	struct usb_interface *pusb_intf;
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_cmd.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_cmd.c
> index acda930722b2..69d3c55ee9e5 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_cmd.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_cmd.c
> @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ u8 r8712_sitesurvey_cmd(struct _adapter *padapter,
>  	mod_timer(&pmlmepriv->scan_to_timer,
>  		  jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(SCANNING_TIMEOUT));
>  	padapter->ledpriv.LedControlHandler(padapter, LED_CTL_SITE_SURVEY);
> -	padapter->blnEnableRxFF0Filter = 0;
> +	padapter->enable_rx_ff0_filter = 0;
>  	return _SUCCESS;
>  }
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/xmit_linux.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/xmit_linux.c
> index 90d34cf9d2ff..d58ae5b387d4 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/xmit_linux.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/xmit_linux.c
> @@ -102,11 +102,11 @@ void r8712_SetFilter(struct work_struct *work)
>  	r8712_write8(adapter, 0x117, newvalue);
>  
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->lock_rx_ff0_filter, irqL);
> -	adapter->blnEnableRxFF0Filter = 1;
> +	adapter->enable_rx_ff0_filter = 1;
>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&adapter->lock_rx_ff0_filter, irqL);
>  	do {
>  		msleep(100);
> -	} while (adapter->blnEnableRxFF0Filter == 1);
> +	} while (adapter->enable_rx_ff0_filter == 1);

Ah, that's funny.  It's amazing it works at all and that the compiler
doesn't optimize this away.  This isn't a good pattern to use in kernel
code.  I know it's not caused by your change here, but perhaps you might
want to fix this up to work properly?

thanks,

greg k-h