linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2

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Message-ID: <m3sla77723.fsf@maximus.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 08 May 2007 15:56:20 +0200
From:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
To:	Michael-Luke Jones <mlj28@....ac.uk>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>,
	ARM Linux Mailing List 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - NPE

Michael-Luke Jones <mlj28@....ac.uk> writes:

> Already in mach-ixp4xx, so can just be called npe.c

I want ixp4xx_ prefix in module name, otherwise I'd call it npe.c,
sure.

> Debugging code? Can this go?

Why? Especially with code having to work with third party binary-only
firmware? Suicide. They are eliminated at build time = performance
hit (OTOH this file isn't on any fast path).

> It may be a matter of taste, but could some of the many definitions
> at the top of ixp4xx_npe.c go in the header file here?

It's actually not only a matter of taste, they are private
to the .c file and I don't want to make them available to the
public (but sure, I don't like them in .c either, I think nobody
likes such definitions anywhere but they have to exist somewhere).
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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