linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [staging] bcm: Fix codingstyle problems

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 28 May 2012 08:02:33 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	"devendra.aaru" <devendra.aaru@...il.com>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [staging] bcm: Fix codingstyle problems

On Mon, 2012-05-28 at 12:34 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 09:37:39PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-05-28 at 09:53 +0530, devendra.aaru wrote:
> > But read the TODO file.  I'm not sure if
> > there's any value in working on bcm at all.
> 
> The bcm driver is pretty crappy and can't maintain a connection for
> very long but we don't have a replacement, so it's worth fixing.

Well, the patch I suggested drops the size by 25%/100K
so it's probably worth something.

$ size drivers/staging/bcm/*.ko*
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
 260530	   7248	  53632	 321410	  4e782	drivers/staging/bcm/bcm_wimax.ko.new
 338001	   7192	  84888	 430081	  69001	drivers/staging/bcm/bcm_wimax.ko.old


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/