[PATCH] staging: vt6656: Refactor the vnt_ofdm_min_rate function
Malcolm Priestley
tvboxspy at gmail.com
Sun Apr 19 19:11:49 UTC 2020
Hi all
On 19/04/2020 18:55, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> Hi Oscar,
>
> On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 15:45:53 +0200
> Oscar Carter <oscar.carter at gmx.com> wrote:
>
>> Replace the for loop by a ternary operator whose condition is an AND
>> bitmask against the priv->basic_rates variable.
>>
>> The purpose of the for loop was to check if any of bits from RATE_54M to
>> RATE_6M was set, but it's not necessary to check every individual bit.
>> The same result can be achieved using only one single mask which
>> comprises all the commented bits.
<snip>
>>
>> -int vnt_ofdm_min_rate(struct vnt_private *priv)
>> +bool vnt_ofdm_min_rate(struct vnt_private *priv)
>> {
>> - int ii;
>> -
>> - for (ii = RATE_54M; ii >= RATE_6M; ii--) {
>> - if ((priv->basic_rates) & ((u16)BIT(ii)))
>> - return true;
>> - }
>> -
>> - return false;
>> + return priv->basic_rates & GENMASK(RATE_54M, RATE_6M) ? true : false;
>
> priv->basic_rates & GENMASK(RATE_54M, RATE_6M) is already true if
> non-zero and false otherwise. Note that I haven't checked if the
> rest is correct.
>
Yes only 1 or more needs to be true and it is false when none present.
I have run-time checked the patch and it does function as before.
Regards
Malcolm.
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