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diff --git a/drivers/staging/qlge/TODO b/drivers/staging/qlge/TODO new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..51c509084e80 --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/staging/qlge/TODO @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +* reception stalls permanently (until admin intervention) if the rx buffer + queues become empty because of allocation failures (ex. under memory + pressure) +* commit 7c734359d350 ("qlge: Size RX buffers based on MTU.", v2.6.33-rc1) + introduced dead code in the receive routines, which should be rewritten + anyways by the admission of the author himself, see the comment above + ql_build_rx_skb(). That function is now used exclusively to handle packets + that underwent header splitting but it still contains code to handle non + split cases. +* truesize accounting is incorrect (ex: a 9000B frame has skb->truesize 10280 + while containing two frags of order-1 allocations, ie. >16K) +* while in that area, using two 8k buffers to store one 9k frame is a poor + choice of buffer size. +* in the "chain of large buffers" case, the driver uses an skb allocated with + head room but only puts data in the frags. +* rename "rx" queues to "completion" queues. Calling tx completion queues "rx + queues" is confusing. +* struct rx_ring is used for rx and tx completions, with some members relevant + to one case only +* there is an inordinate amount of disparate debugging code, most of which is + of questionable value. In particular, qlge_dbg.c has hundreds of lines of + code bitrotting away in ifdef land (doesn't compile since commit + 18c49b91777c ("qlge: do vlan cleanup", v3.1-rc1), 8 years ago). +* triggering an ethtool regdump will hexdump a 176k struct to dmesg depending + on some module parameters. +* the flow control implementation in firmware is buggy (sends a flood of pause + frames, resets the link, device and driver buffer queues become + desynchronized), disable it by default +* some structures are initialized redundantly (ex. memset 0 after + alloc_etherdev()) +* the driver has a habit of using runtime checks where compile time checks are + possible (ex. ql_free_rx_buffers(), ql_alloc_rx_buffers()) +* reorder struct members to avoid holes if it doesn't impact performance +* in terms of namespace, the driver uses either qlge_, ql_ (used by + other qlogic drivers, with clashes, ex: ql_sem_spinlock) or nothing (with + clashes, ex: struct ob_mac_iocb_req). Rename everything to use the "qlge_" + prefix. +* avoid legacy/deprecated apis (ex. replace pci_dma_*, replace pci_enable_msi, + use pci_iomap) +* some "while" loops could be rewritten with simple "for", ex. + ql_wait_reg_rdy(), ql_start_rx_ring()) +* remove duplicate and useless comments +* fix weird line wrapping (all over, ex. the ql_set_routing_reg() calls in + qlge_set_multicast_list()). +* fix weird indentation (all over, ex. the for loops in qlge_get_stats()) +* fix checkpatch issues |