From: Ian Molton <ian@mnementh.co.uk>
To: "James Hughes" <james.hughes@raspberrypi.org>,
"Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>,
Franky Lin <franky.lin@broadcom.com>,
Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: Broadcom fmac wireless driver cleanup
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 10:45:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0c29a7c4-cd74-0ac1-fca9-b8e9dba656ea@mnementh.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE_XsMLVjT1kGmQBciADQwHKS+AgytzxePyQrYnGQQqanFj9jw@mail.gmail.com>
On 17/07/17 10:13, James Hughes wrote:
> As someone who is interested in any bug fixes to this driver (Device
> is used on Raspberry Pi3/0W and we have a number of issues reported
> which we are actively investigating), it would be very useful to more
> clearly split out any actual fixes vs simply tidying up (Yes, I agree
> the driver is mostly incomprehensible).
I don't think there are any actual *fixes* in this RFC series. Its all
cleanup.
The only issue I highlighted in my covering email - the patch titled
"HACK" was the only issue I uncovered thus far in that code. I dont know
the correct solution, although I can *guess* it, which is not good
enough, IMO.
If no-one has the docs for this chip, thats a bad state of affairs. Is
there anything circulating?
> Perhaps asking the
> list/maintainers for comments on any located issues/bugs fixes would
> be a useful starting point,
Thats *literally* what RFC means, is it not?
> along with ensuring the description gives a good explanation of what
> the suspect issue is.
Yes, absolutely - for a fully signed off series, or a particularly
complex bit of code, sure.
I think each of these patches is easily reviewable. None of them are
complex, just huge.
As yet, I have *zero* idea that the maintainers are interested in taking
the driver in the direction I'm going. It looks a LOT like a typical
corporate code-dump, and unless I'm convinced that sending carefully
polished patches is worth it, I don't see why I should put the effort in.
Trust goes both ways in this process. Give me a sign that I should carry
on with this work. If its got no hope of ever going upstream, all I'm
doing is wasting time.
-Ian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-17 9:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-16 11:21 RFC: Broadcom fmac wireless driver cleanup Ian Molton
2017-07-16 11:21 ` [PATCH 01/21] net: brcmfmac: Write function depends on size of regs not types Ian Molton
2017-07-16 11:21 ` [PATCH 02/21] net: brcmfmac: Fix brain damaged fn parameter order Ian Molton
2017-07-16 11:21 ` [PATCH 03/21] bcmfmac: simplify brcmf_sdiod_abort Ian Molton
2017-07-16 11:21 ` [PATCH 04/21] brcmfmac: Do away with this abomination: Ian Molton
2017-07-16 11:21 ` [PATCH 05/21] brcmfmac: its ALWAYS 4 Ian Molton
2017-07-16 11:21 ` [PATCH 06/21] brcmfmac: Clean up SDIO IO functions Ian Molton
2017-07-16 11:21 ` [PATCH 07/21] brcmfmac: Split buff_rw function up + cleanup annoying bcmerror variable Ian Molton
2017-07-16 11:21 ` [PATCH 08/21] brcmfmac: Sanitise all byte-wise IO Ian Molton
2017-07-16 11:21 ` [PATCH 09/21] brcmfmac: tidy header a bit Ian Molton
2017-07-16 11:21 ` [PATCH 10/21] brcmfmac: Further SDIO addressing cleanup Ian Molton
2017-07-16 11:21 ` [PATCH 11/21] brcmfmac: cleanup horrid offsetof() mess Ian Molton
2017-07-16 11:21 ` [PATCH 12/21] brcmfmac: Fix awfully named #define and crap multi-stage if...elseif clause Ian Molton
2017-07-16 11:21 ` [PATCH 13/21] brcmfmac: HACK - stabilise the value of ->sbwad in use for some xfer routines Ian Molton
2017-07-16 11:21 ` [PATCH 14/21] brcmfmac: Get rid of hideous chip_priv and core_priv structs Ian Molton
2017-07-16 11:21 ` [PATCH 15/21] brcmfmac: Simplify chip probe routine Ian Molton
2017-07-16 11:21 ` [PATCH 16/21] brcmfmac: rename axi functions for clarity Ian Molton
2017-07-16 11:21 ` [PATCH 17/21] brcmfmac: HUGE cleanup of IO access functions Ian Molton
2017-07-16 15:16 ` kbuild test robot
2017-07-16 15:16 ` [PATCH] brcmfmac: fix boolreturn.cocci warnings kbuild test robot
2017-07-16 11:21 ` [PATCH 18/21] brcmfmac: rename ctx -> bus_priv Ian Molton
2017-07-16 11:21 ` [PATCH 19/21] brcmfmac: Remove repeated and annoying calls to brcmf_chip_get_core() Ian Molton
2017-07-16 11:21 ` [PATCH 20/21] brcmfmac: general cleanup Ian Molton
2017-07-16 11:21 ` [PATCH 21/21] brcmfmac: rename horridly named IO functions Ian Molton
2017-07-17 4:53 ` RFC: Broadcom fmac wireless driver cleanup Rafał Miłecki
2017-07-17 9:13 ` James Hughes
2017-07-17 9:45 ` Ian Molton [this message]
[not found] ` <707b8832-a09e-9d8a-d4fc-6f9b73306680@mnementh.co.uk>
2017-07-17 10:38 ` Rafał Miłecki
2017-07-21 15:29 ` Kalle Valo
2017-07-17 12:41 ` Arend van Spriel
2017-07-17 15:56 ` Ian Molton
2017-07-17 17:40 ` Ian Molton
2017-07-17 16:18 ` Ian Molton
2017-07-17 16:20 ` Ian Molton
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