Re: [PATCH]: 2.5.38uc1 (MMU-less support)

Greg Ungerer (gerg@snapgear.com)
Thu, 26 Sep 2002 16:07:27 +1000


Hi Matthew,

I just generated a new patch, linux-2.5.38uc2.
Which addresses a lot of your comments. I did a
lot of work cleaning the ethernet driver, would
be very interreted in your thoughts on that now...

Regards
Greg

Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Thanks for splitting the patch up, makes it easier to see what's going on.
> Let's have another go at making this better...
>
> Motorola 5272 ethernet driver:
> * In Config.in, let's conditionalise it on CONFIG_PPC or something
> * Can you use module_init() so it doesn't need an entry in Space.c?
> * You're defining CONFIG_* variables in the .c file. I don't know whether
> this is something we're still trying to avoid doing ... Greg, you seem
> to be CodingStyle enforcer, what's the word?
> * Why do you need to EXPORT_SYMBOL fec_register_ph and fec_unregister_ph?
> * There's an awful lot of stuff conditionalised on CONFIG_M5272. In general,
> having #ifdefs within functions is frowned upon.
>
> Motorola 68328 and ColdFire serial drivers:
> * Move to drivers/serial
> * Lose this change from the Makefile:
> - selection.o sonypi.o sysrq.o tty_io.o tty_ioctl.o
> + selection.o sonypi.o sysrq.o tty_io.o tty_ioctl.o \
> * Drop the custom MIN() definition.
> * Port to new serial driver framework.
>
> MTD driver patches for uClinux supported platforms:
> I don't see any problems. Submit to Linus via Dave Woodhouse, I guess.
>
> Motorola 68328 framebuffer:
> Don't see any problems here either.
>
> uClinux FLAT file format exe loader:
> * Drop the MAX() macro.
> * +#include "../lib/inflate2.c". Er. You seem to have missed inflate2.c
> from your patch, and this really isn't the right way to do it anyway.
> Can't you share inflate.c these days?
> * I'm also a little unsure about your per-arch #defines. Could you put
> comments by each saying why they're necessary?
>
> I haven't reveiwed the other two patches.
>

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