* 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