> -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman [mailto:gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, October 16, 2017 3:50 PM > To: Pkshih > Cc: Larry Finger; Kalle Valo; Dan Carpenter; 莊彥宣; Johannes Berg; Souptick Joarder; > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; kernel-janitors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Two rtlwifi drivers? > > > > 4) As Kalle mentioned, rtlwifi contains many magic numbers, and I > > plan to fix them after rtl8723de and rtl8821ce. Because the drivers > > are developing, the changes will make us hard to integrate. However, > > I don't have plan to process the magic numbers in the module phydm, > > because the most of BB/RF registers contain many functions. And > > it doesn't have a register name but a bit field name instead. > > Our BB team guys say the use of enumeration or defined name will > > be unreadable, and the name is meaningless for most people. > > Don't be so sure that names are "meaningless", there are people here > that have been doing network drivers and development for longer than > anyone else in the world. It's best to at least name values, even if > they do not seem to make sense, as that way the value can be tracked > correctly, and possibly be understood later by someone else, or even > you! > Thanks for your help to resolve our questions. I'll pass this point to the guys. PK _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
