Add the rt linux 4.1.3-rt3 as base

[kvmfornfv.git] / kernel / drivers / staging / slicoss / TODO

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+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.
+       - 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.