On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 06:32 +0800, Michael Gao wrote:
> Kevin,
> 
> Please see comments below.
> 
> On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 16:45 -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> > In addition to Dirk's comments, I might add that patches against the
> > master branch of the DaVinci git tree are preferred.
> With the newly created git-tree and such, I think Steven can fix the
> patches according to comments from both Dirk and you, except for this
> one. 
> 
> It is an unfortunate fact that Neuros must stick a certain kernel
> version (2.6.23 ATM) for well-known reasons, I am afraid Steven will not
> have the opportunity to go further to make sure the patch apply to
> master branch cleanly.
> 
> I take your 'might' above as an ok to this. ;-)
> 
> > Also, I understand this is a forward port of a driver from 2.6.10, so
> > most of the errors/warnings come from the original TI driver, and not
> > from your work.
> > 
> > However, for me to merge this code, at a minimum all the checkpatch
> > errors/warnings should be fixed, and there are a handful of other
> > whitespace issues to be cleaned up for readability as well.
> Yes, they should all be fixed.
Yes, they are all fixed .
> > That being said, I did compare the original driver from the TI/MV
> > 2.6.10 kernel to your forward port, and you seem to have made lots of
> > changes that are not scrictly forward port changes.  When doing this,
> > I prefer to see separate patches for these kinds of changes.  In other
> > words, I'd prefer to see one patch which is just a forward port,
> > followed by cleanup patches with detailed descriptions.
> I believe this was the case already with the patches Steven provided,
> first there was a strict forward porting, then a patch following up to
> remove the devfs, I'll let Steven speak for himself in the up-comping
> new patch series.
The porting patch is rather simple, remove the devfs, replace the struct 
class_simple with 
struct class .
However, the debug compile error is still not fixed. 
> > In addition to this, you've done several changes to the debug prints,
> > as well as added braces around single statement while/if blocks, which
> > is not needed, and is frowned upon by upstream maintainers.
> It was me who brutally removed some of the debug printfs due to
> compiling error if keeping them, I didn't know how to fix it and I still
> don't. :-(
> 
> Steven, can you help bring them back and post the error messages here to
> ask for help if you can't fix them yourself?
Thanks Michael. I will send out a mail soon ask for help.
> > Also, you explicitly add a NULL assignment to static variables, which
> > is redundant as these end up in the .bss section which is explicitly
> > zeroed. (specifically: static struct class_simple *rsz_class = NULL;)
> I thought Steven has fixed this, but Steven can speak better for
> himself.
> 
> Thanks,
It is fixed now. thanks.

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