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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-05-18 21:08:20 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-05-18 21:08:20 -0700 |
| commit | bb803cfbecb03a0cf8dc7e1864f18dda6631af00 (patch) | |
| tree | 6c0989693bea6f50cfa5c6bb14f52ec19668def3 /drivers/staging/slicoss/README | |
| parent | 3878fb6fdbceecca20b15748f807340854220f06 (diff) | |
| parent | 511e11e396dc596825ce04d53d7f6d579404bc01 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/slicoss/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/staging/slicoss/README | 31 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/slicoss/README b/drivers/staging/slicoss/README index 2d5b1127ce5..70f49099c06 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/slicoss/README +++ b/drivers/staging/slicoss/README @@ -10,7 +10,36 @@ TODO: - move firmware loading to request_firmware() - remove direct memory access of structures - any remaining sparse and checkpatch.pl warnings - - any netdev recommended changes + + - use net_device_ops + - use dev->stats rather than adapter->stats + - don't cast netdev_priv it is already void + - use compare_ether_addr + - 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 availble 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@suse.de> |