Re: [PATCH 05/13] staging:rtl8192u: Remove AdvCoding and GreenField - Style

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Fri Sep 28 2018 - 10:31:59 EST


On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 08:16:56PM +0100, John Whitmore wrote:
> The member variables AdvCoding and GreenField are unused in code so
> have been removed from the structure and associated initialisation
> function.
>
> This is a coding style change which should have no impact on runtime
> code execution.
>
> Signed-off-by: John Whitmore <johnfwhitmore@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/rtl819x_HT.h | 2 --
> drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/rtl819x_HTProc.c | 2 --
> 2 files changed, 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/rtl819x_HT.h b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/rtl819x_HT.h
> index 64d5359cf7e2..83fb8f34ccbd 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/rtl819x_HT.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/rtl819x_HT.h
> @@ -39,10 +39,8 @@ enum ht_extension_chan_offset {
>
> struct ht_capability_ele {
> //HT capability info
> - u8 AdvCoding:1;
> u8 ChlWidth:1;
> u8 MimoPwrSave:2;
> - u8 GreenField:1;
> u8 ShortGI20Mhz:1;
> u8 ShortGI40Mhz:1;
> u8 TxSTBC:1;

I feel like we discussed this before. I'm pretty sure this comes from
the firmware and so the format can't be changed. When I look at
rtllib_parse_mife_generic() then I think that "info_element" probably
comes from the firmware.

I wouldn't want to accept this with out someone testing it.

regards,
dan carpenter