Re: [PATCH] ACP Modem (Mwave)

paulsch@haywired.net
Wed, 18 Jul 2001 11:31:59 -0500 (CDT)


Oh yeah...

It can be gotten here:

http://oss.software.ibm.com/acpmodem/

Directly:
http://oss.software.ibm.com/pub/acpmodem/mwave_linux-2.4.6.patch-20010718

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Paul Schroeder wrote:

> Okay.. I cleaned things up... I was more careful about the globals this
> time...
>
> Also... The driver now builds as mwave.o instead of mwavedd.o... The
> driver now registers it's UART as a serial device (Thomas Hood).. So there
> is no need to run setserial anymore...
>
> Cheers...Paul...
>
>
> ---
> Paul B Schroeder <paulsch@us.ibm.com>
> Software Engineer, Linux Technology Center
> IBM Corporation, Austin, TX
>
>
> Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> on 07/12/2001 02:55:00 PM
>
> To: Paul Schroeder/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
> cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mike Sullivan/Austin/IBM@IBMUS,
> alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACP Modem (Mwave)
>
>
>
> > The patch has been updated... The updates primarily consist of Alan's
> > suggested changes below... (thank you) It applies against the 2.4.6
> > kernel...
>
> A quick glance through it:
>
> dsp3780I_WriteDStore still touches user space with a spinlock held
> (also doesnt check the get_user return)
>
> The ioctl handlers do not check copy_from_user/to_user returns
>
> IOCTL_MW_UNREGISTER_IPC will oops if fed bogus info (ipcnum should be
> unsigned)
>
> The return should be -ENOTTY not -ENOIOCTLCMD unless its internal code
> that catches NOIOCTLCMD and changes it before user space sees it
>
> mwave_Read should be -EINVAL not -ENOSYS (ENOSYS means the entire read
> syscall
> in the OS isnt there)
>
> In debug mode mwave_write accesses user space directly and may crash
> (buf[0])
>
> Trivial item - coding style uses foo(void) not foo() to indicate functions
> taking no arguments
>
> Still have globals like "dspio" "uartio" "ClaimResources" etc
>
> whats wrong with tp3780_uart_io etc for globals ?
>
> Otherwise it looks close to ready
>
> Alan
>
>
>
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