linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/12] can: c_can: Fix a series of serious bugs and improve the performance

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Message-ID: <533A742F.4090703@pengutronix.de>
Date:	Tue, 01 Apr 2014 10:09:19 +0200
From:	Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@...ndegger.com>,
	Markus Pargmann <mpa@...gutronix.de>,
	Benedikt Spranger <b.spranger@...utronix.de>,
	linux-can@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/12] can: c_can: Fix a series of serious bugs and improve
 the performance

On 04/01/2014 12:35 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Dear Maintainers,
> 
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2014, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> The driver is full of serious bugs:
>>
>>     - Two HW init routines are not spec compliant.
>>
>>     - Completely defective message buffer handling in several ways
>>       That leads to interrupt storms and complete lockups.
>>
>>     - Complete lack of SMP awareness
>>
>> What's amazing is that people "optimize" and "fix" the driver over and
>> over, but nobody bothered to understand the manual and repair the code
>> for real.
>>
>> The series fixes _ALL_ bugs which I found so far, but I'm sure there
>> are more issues burried in that unreadable mess. I'm just not able to
>> trigger them.
> 
> What's the state of this series?

I'll apply your patches today.

regards,
Marc
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