Re: [PATCH] ks8851_ml ethernet network driver

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 08:48:01PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:38:36 -0700
> 
> > From: Choi, David <David.Choi@Micrel.Com>
> > 
> > This is a network driver for the ks8851 16bit MLL ethernet device.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: David J. Choi <david.choi@micrel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> 
> This doesn't even build cleanly:
> 
> drivers/net/ks8851_mll.c: In function ‘ks_inblk’:
> drivers/net/ks8851_mll.c:555: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
> drivers/net/ks8851_mll.c:558: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘_readw’ makes pointer from integer without a cast
> drivers/net/ks8851_mll.c: In function ‘ks_outblk’:
> drivers/net/ks8851_mll.c:571: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
> drivers/net/ks8851_mll.c:574: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘_writew’ makes pointer from integer without a cast

Ick, David Choi, what happened here?

> It also has a big "#define DEBUG" at the beginning of the driver.
> 
> And it also has stuff like:
> 
> +#define MALLOC(x)		kmalloc(x, GFP_KERNEL)
> 
> which actually decreases the readability of this driver.
> 
> Please fix this up.

Sorry about that, I'll do a closer review next time before resubmitting.

David Choi, care to fix this, and the comments from Stephen up?

thanks,

greg k-h