On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 04:29:36PM -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
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> 
> > I know that in the future the linux-dvb-API will also support other 
> > bandwidths so I'm begging for mercy for those 3 things here to not get too 
> > much out-of-sync with our internal code.
> 
> I don't see much problem on keeping this for a while. 
> 
> However, if not causing to much troubles for you to manage, I would to
> this, instead:
> #if 0
> 	/* Currently, DVB API allows only bandwidths starting from 5 GHz */
>         factor = BANDWIDTH_TO_KHZ(ch->u.ofdm.bandwidth);
>         if (factor >= 5000)
>                 factor = 1;
>         else
>                 factor = 6;
> #else
> 	factor = 6;
> #endif
> 
> With the above code, gentree.pl scripts will automatically remove the
> dead code from the Kernel, while keeping it defined at the development
> environment.
>...

Good compilers like gcc generate the same code for both cases [1], so 
there's no reason for changing anything.

The reason for my email was that it looked strange, but since it's 
intended I'd say it's OK.

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> Cheers,
> Mauro

cu
Adrian

[1] except that your #else case contains the wrong value  ;-)

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