Re: bcm

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On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:13:28AM -0400, Kevin McKinney wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 06:33:19AM +0600, Rinat Camalov wrote:
> >>
> >> CC the devel list ?????? What is that?
> >
> > Add this to the CC list:  devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > You're not using the upstream code?  Can you try compiling the 3.5
> > kernel?  It's not going to work either, but at least we'll all be
> > using the same source.
> >
> > This driver is so full of absolute crap, but there wasn't anyone to
> > test it.  And we thought it didn't work at all anyway so it was
> > discouraging.
> 
> Yeah, I still can't test this driver.
> 
> > These warnings are still there and there is a comment that the
> > code can't possibly be right (on 64 bit).  So that's one place to
> > start.
> >
> >> /home/richman/bcm/CmHost.c: In function ‘StoreCmControlResponseMessage’:
> >> /home/richman/bcm/CmHost.c:1401:39: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
> >> /home/richman/bcm/CmHost.c:1440:37: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
> >> /home/richman/bcm/CmHost.c:1454:35: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
> 
> This is a really tough one to crack.  I tried looking at this once
> last year.  I will give it another shot.
> 

Yup.

> > Also the whole driver just needs cleaned up.  If someone did that
> > they would find a ball of things to fix.
> 
> I know we did a lot of cleanup in the past. I will look to see other
> files that need to be addressed.  But I did not think there was a ton.
>  Are you saying we still have a long way to go on the cleanup effort?
> 

Yes.  Look anywhere.  Transmit.c.  Typedef.h

regards,
dan carpenter

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