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Re: [PATCH 4/8] staging: wilc1000: avoid line over 80 chars in wilc_parse_network_info()

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Hi Joe,

On 11/5/2018 4:27 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-11-01 at 16:45 +0000, Ajay.Kathat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> From: Ajay Singh <ajay.kathat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Use shorter name for 'network_info' variable to avoid line over 80 chars
>> issue.
>
> I suppose this is OK, though perhaps unnecessary.
>
> As well, perhaps there are defects in the original code
> in a couple places.
>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/coreconfigurator.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/coreconfigurator.c
> []
>> -		network_info->tsf_hi = le64_to_cpu(mgt->u.beacon.timestamp);
>> -		network_info->tsf_lo = (u32)network_info->tsf_hi;
> Perhaps there is a defect for both tsf_hi assignments
> as it appears as if both are missing ">> 32"

Actually, 'tsf_hi' is used to store the complete tsf value as its data
type is u64.  This value is pass to the cfg80211_inform_bss() as it is.
So the conversion of 'tsf_hi' to 32 bit  is not required in this case.

>> +		info->cap_info = le16_to_cpu(mgt->u.beacon.capab_info);
>> +		info->beacon_period = le16_to_cpu(mgt->u.beacon.beacon_int);
>> +		info->tsf_hi = le64_to_cpu(mgt->u.beacon.timestamp);
>> +		info->tsf_lo = (u32)info->tsf_hi;
> Perhaps this should be 
>
> 		network_info->tsf_hi = le64_to_cpu(mgt->u.beacon.timestamp) >> 32;
>
> or
>
> 		network_info->tsf_hi = upper_32_bits(le64_to_cpu(...));
> 		network_info->tsf_lo = lower_32_bits(le64_to_cpu(...));
>
>




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