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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/staging/slicoss/README | 40 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/staging/slicoss/TODO | 38 |
2 files changed, 38 insertions, 40 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/slicoss/README b/drivers/staging/slicoss/README index 53052c4..4fa50e7 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/slicoss/README +++ b/drivers/staging/slicoss/README @@ -5,43 +5,3 @@ This driver is supposed to support: Kalahari cards (dual and quad port PCI-e Gigabit) copper and fiber The driver was actually tested on Oasis and Kalahari cards. - -TODO: - - move firmware loading to request_firmware() - - remove direct memory access of structures - - any remaining sparse and checkpatch.pl warnings - - - use net_device_ops - - use dev->stats rather than adapter->stats - - don't cast netdev_priv it is already void - - GET RID OF MACROS - - work on all architectures - - without CONFIG_X86_64 confusion - - do 64 bit correctly - - don't depend on order of union - - get rid of ASSERT(), use BUG() instead but only where necessary - looks like most aren't really useful - - no new SIOCDEVPRIVATE ioctl allowed - - don't use module_param for configuring interrupt mitigation - use ethtool instead - - reorder code to elminate use of forward declarations - - don't keep private linked list of drivers. - - remove all the gratiutous debug infrastructure - - use PCI_DEVICE() - - do ethtool correctly using ethtool_ops - - NAPI? - - wasted overhead of extra stats - - state variables for things that are - easily available and shouldn't be kept in card structure, cardnum, ... - slotnumber, events, ... - - get rid of slic_spinlock wrapper - - volatile == bad design => bad code - - locking too fine grained, not designed just throw more locks - at problem - - -Please send patches to: - Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> -and Cc: Lior Dotan <liodot@gmail.com> and Christopher Harrer -<charrer@alacritech.com> as well as they are also able to test out any -changes. diff --git a/drivers/staging/slicoss/TODO b/drivers/staging/slicoss/TODO new file mode 100644 index 0000000..62ff100 --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/staging/slicoss/TODO @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +TODO: + - move firmware loading to request_firmware() + - remove direct memory access of structures + - any remaining sparse and checkpatch.pl warnings + + - use net_device_ops + - use dev->stats rather than adapter->stats + - don't cast netdev_priv it is already void + - GET RID OF MACROS + - work on all architectures + - without CONFIG_X86_64 confusion + - do 64 bit correctly + - don't depend on order of union + - get rid of ASSERT(), use BUG() instead but only where necessary + looks like most aren't really useful + - no new SIOCDEVPRIVATE ioctl allowed + - don't use module_param for configuring interrupt mitigation + use ethtool instead + - reorder code to elminate use of forward declarations + - don't keep private linked list of drivers. + - remove all the gratiutous debug infrastructure + - use PCI_DEVICE() + - do ethtool correctly using ethtool_ops + - NAPI? + - wasted overhead of extra stats + - state variables for things that are + easily available and shouldn't be kept in card structure, cardnum, ... + slotnumber, events, ... + - get rid of slic_spinlock wrapper + - volatile == bad design => bad code + - locking too fine grained, not designed just throw more locks + at problem + +Please send patches to: + Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> +and Cc: Lior Dotan <liodot@gmail.com> and Christopher Harrer +<charrer@alacritech.com> as well as they are also able to test out any +changes. |