Date: Sun, 1 May 2022 18:50:15 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Cc: Forest Bond <forest@alittletooquiet.net>, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: vt6655: Rename function CARDbGetCurrentTSF
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On Sun, May 01, 2022 at 06:37:05PM +0200, Philipp Hortmann wrote:
> The name of the function uses CamelCase which
> is not accepted by checkpatch.pl
> 
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/vt6655/card.c        | 10 +++++-----
>  drivers/staging/vt6655/card.h        |  2 +-
>  drivers/staging/vt6655/device_main.c |  2 +-
>  3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6655/card.c b/drivers/staging/vt6655/card.c
> index ec6fd185d3fd..d1dfd96e13b7 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/vt6655/card.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/vt6655/card.c
> @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
>   *      CARDbAddBasicRate - Add to BasicRateSet
>   *      CARDbIsOFDMinBasicRate - Check if any OFDM rate is in BasicRateSet
>   *      CARDqGetTSFOffset - Calculate TSFOffset
> - *      CARDbGetCurrentTSF - Read Current NIC TSF counter
> + *      card_get_current_tsf - Read Current NIC TSF counter
>   *      CARDqGetNextTBTT - Calculate Next Beacon TSF counter
>   *      CARDvSetFirstNextTBTT - Set NIC Beacon time
>   *      CARDvUpdateNextTBTT - Sync. NIC Beacon time
> @@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ bool CARDbUpdateTSF(struct vnt_private *priv, unsigned char byRxRate,
>  	u64 local_tsf;
>  	u64 qwTSFOffset = 0;
>  
> -	CARDbGetCurrentTSF(priv, &local_tsf);
> +	card_get_current_tsf(priv, &local_tsf);

Why is the value being passed as a reference and the error value (if
any), is not checked at all?

Shouldn't this just return the value as it obviously must always work?
(retorical question, something is wrong here...)

And this is a horrible global function name, can you prefix it with the
driver name to give us a chance to keep the global namespace sane?
vt6655_get_current_tsf() would be better.

thanks,

greg k-h