Re: [PATCH 2/3] staging: r8188eu: refactor rtw_ch2freq()

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Tue Feb 22 2022 - 00:41:00 EST


On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 11:54:50PM +0300, Pavel Skripkin wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> On 2/21/22 22:20, Michael Straube wrote:
> > > I'm glad that Pavel noticed this change. This is a risky thing and
> > > should have been noted in the commit message.
> > >
> > > Just from a review stand point it would be best to leave the original
> > > behavior.
> > >
> >
> > Do you mean to leave the whole original code including the 5 GHz
> > frequencies? Or returning a default value if we have a channel value < 1
> > or > 14?
> >
>
> IMO, your version is much cleaner than previous one. This table walk seems
> really unreasonable, since 5 GHz support is really redundant (I saw it in
> other thread)
>
> I'd put just sanity check and return the default value from previous
> version. Maybe even wrapped with unlikely() if we sure, that in normal state
> we won't hit it ;)

Adding likely()/unlikely() annotations hurt readability. Do not do that
unless you have benchmark data to prove that it is worth it. (Hint: it
is not worth it here).

regards,
dan carpenter