linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: comedi: Convert struct addi

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Message-ID: <4FB51FFA.3090800@mev.co.uk>
Date:	Thu, 17 May 2012 16:57:46 +0100
From:	Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	Ian Abbott <ian.abbott@....co.uk>,
	H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@...ionengravers.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	"fmhess@...rs.sourceforge.net" <fmhess@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: comedi: Convert struct addi_board initialization
 to C99 format

On 2012/05/17 02:32 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 07:45:08AM +0100, Ian Abbott wrote:
>> On 17/05/12 07:15, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
>>> Wednesday, May 16, 2012 7:18 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>>>> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 05:51:56PM -0700, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
>>>>> Convert the struct addi_board initialization to C99 format and remove
>>>>> all the NULL or 0 initializers. This makes maintaining and editing the
>>>>> code simpler and less error prone.
>>>> Nice job, this driver is a pain to read...
>>>
>>> Thanks. I agree... I've been avoiding the addi drivers until now.
>>> Anytime a C file has an #include "something.c" it makes me
>>> shudder...
>>>
>>> I've been thinking that the addi stuff should really be broken up
>>> into some library modules with exported symbols for the individual
>>> addi drivers to use. I need to look a bit closer at them to see if
>>> this would work. Right now the whole thing is a bit of a mess.
>>
>> TBH, I don't know how they got accepted into Comedi in the first
>> place.  They tend to do their own thing as far as comedi instruction
>> handling goes.  I've no idea who's using them.  It makes me shudder,
>> too!  Did I mention the use of floating point in some of their
>> drivers that we had to disable?
> 
> I thought a few years ago, either you, or someone else, said it would be
> good to just delete them entirely.  Or am I making that up and just wish
> it would be so?  :)

I can't remember at my age!

There was a guy who works for Addi-Data (Krauth Julien) who had trouble
submitting patches to you directly (I was CC'd) back in
September/October 2011, so I guess they'd be unhappy if the drivers were
removed altogether!

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