Hi Anant,

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Anant Gole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>To: [email protected]
>>Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 11:44:15 +0530
>>Subject: [PATCH] NET: DaVinci: EMAC driver platform driver model conversion 
>>and misc. cleanups.
>>From: Trilok Soni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>>- Convert EMAC driver to use platform driver model.
>>- Start doing scripts/checkpatch.pl conversions. Not all reported errors
>> by this tool are handled right now. Following are major one:
>>       - Remove use of typedefs.
>>       - Use dev_dbg/err whenever see fit. I will remove DBG related
>>         macros with better debugging level wherever necessary.
>>       - Remove kcalloc and kfree wrappers. Use kzalloc/kfree directly.
>> Rest of checkpatch.pl errors, which are not handled right now are mostly
>> falls into 80 chars line limit, usage spaces instead of tabs, KERN_*
>> facility etc. cosmetic stuff, which will be handled in second phase of
>> cleanups.
>>
>> Driver is tested with NFS mounting on DM644x custom board.
>
> Trilok,
>
> I should have announced this earlier, but I am working on recoding
> this driver to truely get it into linux fold as this driver was "linuxified"
> some time back (thanks to Kevin for the efforts) as it was not written
> for Linux originally, but we decided not to touch it too much with the
> fear of breaking its functionality.
>
> Right now I am of the opinion that it just needs a clean revamp in data
> structures and the code in general as there is a lot of unused code in
> there and featuers that need to be removed apart from running
> checkpatch and moving it to latest netdev changes
> .

Please share your changes, and I can probably merge on top of my changes.

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---Trilok Soni
http://triloksoni.wordpress.com
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