Re: [PATCH v2] dgnc: Don't save boards in memory that have failed to initialize

[Mark Hounschell <markh@compro.net>]

On 03/12/2015 12:14 PM, Giedrius Statkevičius wrote:
> On 2015.03.12 12:08, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 06:29:38PM +0200, Giedrius Statkevičius wrote:
>>> Remove BOARD_FAILED and don't save dgnc_boards which failed to
>>> initialize.
>>>
>>> Assign the result of kzalloc() to brd in dgnc_found_board() and only put
>>> it in the dgnc_Board[] if it successfully initializes. Also, remove
>>> BOARD_FAILED enum and all ifs that check for it. Finally, remove one
>>> final place where state was set to BOARD_FAILED which was even redundant
>>> before this patch.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Giedrius Statkevičius <giedrius.statkevicius@gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>> v2: Remove "brd = dgnc_Board[dgnc_NumBoards];" line which I forgot to do
>>> in the first version
>>>
>>>   drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c | 20 ++------------------
>>>   drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.h |  3 +--
>>>   drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_mgmt.c   |  5 +----
>>>   drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c    |  8 --------
>>>   4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c
>>> index fa1ee79..075727d 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c
>>> @@ -401,8 +401,7 @@ static int dgnc_found_board(struct pci_dev *pdev, int id)
>>>   	unsigned long flags;
>>>
>>>   	/* get the board structure and prep it */
>>> -	dgnc_Board[dgnc_NumBoards] = kzalloc(sizeof(*brd), GFP_KERNEL);
>>> -	brd = dgnc_Board[dgnc_NumBoards];
>>> +	brd = kzalloc(sizeof(*brd), GFP_KERNEL);
>>
>> You've done a great job here, but...
>>
>> Yeah, sorry...
>>
>> I really want to see this whole "static list of boards/cards" go away.
>> There should not be any need for that in any in-kernel driver.  Your
>> patch here is a sign that things are really wrong with this whole static
>> array mess.
>>
>> So could you do that instead?  I don't want to take patches around this
>> whole "board state" mess anymore, as it should all not be needed at all.
>>
>> If you need pointers on what needs to be done here, just let me know.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> greg k-h
>>
>
> I can try :) But my main concern is the lack of dgnc driver maintainers
> activity and that I don't own the hardware this driver is written for as
> it's quite expensive (cheapest cards I've found start at 300$~) and I
> can't afford it ATM. But I guess if I keep the patches small and logical
> everything will be okay.
>

I am on the maintainers list and actually have hardware. I have just 
been so swamped the last few months that I haven't been able to do 
ANYTHING here. Even work on the dgap driver that I was working on, I 
just haven't had the time. I can tell you that the dgnc driver does NOT 
work at all and hasn't worked since it was introduced into staging by Greg.

Greg, while I'm here, how can we get Digi firmware into the kernel 
firmware tree? The dgap card is useless without it and I suspect the 
dgnc is as well.

Regards
mark