drivers/staging/slicoss/README

   1 This driver is supposed to support:
   2
   3         Mojave cards (single port PCI Gigabit) both copper and fiber
   4         Oasis cards (single and dual port PCI-x Gigabit) copper and fiber
   5         Kalahari cards (dual and quad port PCI-e Gigabit) copper and fiber
   6
   7 The driver was actually tested on Oasis and Kalahari cards.
   8
   9 TODO:
  10         - move firmware loading to request_firmware()
  11         - remove direct memory access of structures
  12         - any remaining sparse and checkpatch.pl warnings
  13
  14         - use net_device_ops
  15         - use dev->stats rather than adapter->stats
  16         - don't cast netdev_priv it is already void
  17         - use compare_ether_addr
  18         - GET RID OF MACROS
  19         - work on all architectures
  20            - without CONFIG_X86_64 confusion
  21            - do 64 bit correctly
  22            - don't depend on order of union
  23         - get rid of ASSERT(), use BUG() instead but only where necessary
  24           looks like most aren't really useful
  25         - no new SIOCDEVPRIVATE ioctl allowed
  26         - don't use module_param for configuring interrupt mitigation
  27           use ethtool instead
  28         - reorder code to elminate use of forward declarations
  29         - don't keep private linked list of drivers.
  30         - remove all the gratiutous debug infrastructure
  31         - use PCI_DEVICE()
  32         - do ethtool correctly using ethtool_ops
  33         - NAPI?
  34         - wasted overhead of extra stats
  35         - state variables for things that are
  36           easily available and shouldn't be kept in card structure, cardnum, ...
  37           slotnumber, events, ...
  38         - get rid of slic_spinlock wrapper
  39         - volatile == bad design => bad code
  40         - locking too fine grained, not designed just throw more locks
  41           at problem
  42
  43
  44 Please send patches to:
  45         Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
  46 and Cc: Lior Dotan <liodot@gmail.com> and Christopher Harrer
  47 <charrer@alacritech.com> as well as they are also able to test out any
  48 changes.