Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH 4/4] staging: rtl8723bs: Change the type and use of a variable

From: Fabio M. De Francesco
Date: Sat Apr 10 2021 - 08:01:54 EST


On Saturday, April 10, 2021 1:37:30 PM CEST Julia Lawall wrote:
> > That variable has global scope and is assigned at least in:
> What do you mean by global scope? None of the following look like
> references to global variables.
>
> julia
I just mean that fw_current_in_ps_mode is a field of a struct in a .h file
included everywhere in this driver and that the functions whom the
following assignments belong to have not the "static" type modifier.

Thanks,

Fabio
>
> > drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_pwrctrl.c:368:
> > pwrpriv->fw_current_in_ps_mode = false;
> >
> > drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_pwrctrl.c:380:
> > pwrpriv->fw_current_in_ps_mode = true;
> >
> > drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/rtl8723b_hal_init.c:433:
> > adapter_to_pwrctl(padapter)->fw_current_in_ps_mode = false;
> >
> > drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_pwrctrl.c:981:
> > pwrctrlpriv->fw_current_in_ps_mode = false;