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Re: [PATCH 0/4] Driver for the ar5523 chipset

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"John W. Linville" <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> I did a really quick 5 min review of this driver and IMHO this should go
>> directly to drivers/net/wireless/ (or maybe to drivers/net/wireless/ath,
>> Luis?), I don't see any reason why this should go to staging. The code
>> looks clean and is only 2 kLOC. But I'll review this better during the
>> weekend and also run some build tests.
>
> I have no particular objection to that.  FWIW, Pontus contacted me
> and said something like "I've got this driver that sucks and needs
> a lot of work, should it go to staging?"  Perhaps he was being too
> hard on himself? :-)

Well, we are not exactly famous about giving positive feedback ;) So no
wonder new people are extra cautious.

But after a more thorough review I still think that this driver should
go to drivers/net/wireless. For example, it has proper endian support,
it's both gcc and sparse warning free and the code is a pleasure to
read(!).

Here are my comments:

* use ALIGN() and IS_ALIGNED() macros instead of doing it manually
* checkpatch complains about DOS line endings (but that might be due to
  mail server, not sure)
* git-am complained about whitespace damage
* defines inside structures is not common, kernel style is to have the
  defines on top of the structure definition

-- 
Kalle Valo
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