[PATCH] staging: comedi: use meaningful variable name

Gujulan Elango, Hari Prasath (H.) hgujulan at visteon.com
Tue Jun 16 13:22:45 UTC 2015


On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 02:04:21PM +0100, Ian Abbott wrote:
> On 16/06/15 06:34, Gujulan Elango, Hari Prasath (H.) wrote:
> >On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 03:42:07PM +0100, Ian Abbott wrote:
> >>On 15/06/15 15:01, Gujulan Elango, Hari Prasath (H.) wrote:
> >>>From: Hari Prasath Gujulan Elango <hgujulan at visteon.com>
> >>>
> >>>This patch renames the very generic variable name 'todo' to
> >>>num_samples_to_read.
> >>>
> >>>Signed-off-by: Hari Prasath Gujulan Elango <hgujulan at visteon.com>
> [snip]
> >>I don't see anything particularly wrong with the old name, but the
> >>new name is a bit long.  Most of the comedi drivers seem to use the
> >>name 'nsamples' for this.
> >
> >I will leave it to you to decide on this.Should I resend the patch with
> >a shorter variable name as 'nsamples' or leave it undisturbed and drop
> >this patch.
> 
> I'm happy either way, but if you're going to repost it, please
> improve the subject line as well to localize the patch better.
> Maybe something like:
> 
> staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: rename 'todo' variable
> 
> -- 
> -=( Ian Abbott @ MEV Ltd.    E-mail: <abbotti at mev.co.uk> )=-
> -=(                          Web: http://www.mev.co.uk/  )=-

To keep myself also happy,I will send a v2 with subject line changed as
you suggested.

Thanks & Regards
Hari Prasath


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