On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 07:46:28AM -0700, Henry Ptasinski wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 06:45:12PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 08:58:11PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > > On 07/06/2011 08:40 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> > > >Short question, without commenting on brcm80211 code yet:
> > > >
> > > >Why should we want 2 mainline drivers for the same hardware?
> > >
> > > Also, checkpatch.pl finds a lot of bad stuff:
> > >
> > > total: 1 errors, 1505 warnings, 105454 lines checked
> > >
> > > $ scripts/checkpatch.pl 0001-wireless-testing-add-brcm80211.patch >Log
> > > $ egrep '^(WARNING|ERROR)' Log |sort |uniq -c
> > > 1 ERROR: do not use assignment in if condition
> > > 76 WARNING: braces {} are not necessary for any arm of this statement
> > > 205 WARNING: braces {} are not necessary for single statement blocks
> > > 4 WARNING: consider using a completion
> > > 11 WARNING: consider using kstrto* in preference to simple_strtoul
> > > 20 WARNING: do not add new typedefs
> > > 5 WARNING: externs should be avoided in .c files
> > > 1164 WARNING: line over 80 characters
> > > 20 WARNING: Use of volatile is usually wrong: see
> >
> > Almost all of these should be fixed, especially the volatile one, that's
> > just horrible.
>
> Fixes for these are in progress. We'll keep posting patches to address this
> cleanup in staging.
Ok, at the least these should be resolved before ever asking for the
code to be moved out of staging. Sorry for me not checking this
previously, I wrongly assumed that you had finished this task already.
> > Also, there's the whole big endian mess that needs to be fixed up before
> > the driver can be moved out of staging. Henry, what's the status of
> > that?
>
> We're looking at BE MIPS, and I sent some cards to Benjamin Herrenschmidt so
> he
> can test on PPC platforms.
Don't forget just building the thing on other arches (SPARC for example)
and what happens when you try to do that...
thanks,
greg k-h
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