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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 08:48:48 +0000
Subject: Re: TODO list
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On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 05:36:01PM -0700, Ravi Kerur wrote:
> 
> 
> On 4/7/2015 12:49 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:40:35PM -0700, Ravi Kerur wrote:
> >> Team,
> >>
> >> I am planning to take up following items from TODO list. If it's already picked please let me know. 
> >>
> >> * pci_set_dma_mask() and friends should use DMA_BIT_MASK(nn) instead of
> >>
> >> DMA_nnBIT_MASK or 0xffff... This is not 2.4 compatible, so beware of drivers with same code. [D: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t8001993000001] Don't forget to #include dma-mapping.h
> >>
> >> * check kmallocs for things like GFP_DMA without a memtype. 
> >>
> > 
> > The TODO is desperately out of date.  No one cares about 2.4 at all.
> > These days we don't really allow drivers to have backwards compatability
> > code so they compile on old kernels.  That stuff has to be stored out of
> > the main kernel tree.  We also have the compat-wireless and other
> > similar ways of backporting drivers.
> 
> Thanks Dan. Do you recommend anything else for contribution? I am not a
> newbie to kernel but never contributed to kernel before so any inputs
> appreciated.

There is always stuff to fix in staging.  It's at all levels of
difficulty.

regards,
dan carpenter