Re: ETA for Areca RAID driver (arcmsr) in mainline?

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote:
>
> Here's a start on some cleanups and a list of general issues.
>  I'm not addressing SCSI or MM/DMA API issues, if there are any.
> 
>  0.  some Kconfig and Makefile cleanups
>  1.  fix arcmsr_device_id_table[] inits;
>  2.  fix return (value); -- don't use parenethese
>  3.  fix one-line-ifs-with-braces -- remove braces
>  4.  struct _XYZ & typedef XYZ, PXYZ -- convert to struct XYZ only
>  5.  check NULL usage
>  6.  no "return;" at end of func; -- removed
>  7.  return -ENXIO instead of ENXIO;
> 
>  Patch for above items is below.
> 
>  More issues, not yet patched:
> 
>  8.  check sparse warnings, stack usage, init/exit sections;
>  9.  don't use // comments;
>  10. use printk levels
>  11. pPCI_DEV: bad naming (throughout driver; don't use mixed case)
>  12. some comments are unreadable (non-ASCII ?)
>  13. uintNN_t int types:  use kernel types except for userspace interfaces
>  14. use kernel-doc
>  15. try to fit source files into 80 columns

Unfortunately I've gone and applied a huge driver update from Erich, so
none of this applies any more.

A recut would be appreciated.  Please include your additional suggestions:

16. Tab size in Linux kernel is 8 (not less).
17. Don't put changelog comments in source files.  That's what
     SCMs are for (source code manager tools).
18. Put arcmsr.txt in Documentation/scsi/, not in scsi/arcmsr/.
19. Maybe use sysfs (/sys) instead of /proc.

In the updated changelog, thanks.