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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/slicoss/TODO')
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diff --git a/drivers/staging/slicoss/TODO b/drivers/staging/slicoss/TODO new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..62ff1008b1ee --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/staging/slicoss/TODO @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +TODO: + - move firmware loading to request_firmware() + - remove direct memory access of structures + - any remaining sparse and checkpatch.pl warnings + + - use net_device_ops + - use dev->stats rather than adapter->stats + - don't cast netdev_priv it is already void + - 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 available 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@linuxfoundation.org> +and Cc: Lior Dotan <liodot@gmail.com> and Christopher Harrer +<charrer@alacritech.com> as well as they are also able to test out any +changes. |