linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add mkopci driver

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Date:	Fri, 20 Mar 2015 13:43:50 +0100
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:	sergej.bauer@...il.com
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add mkopci driver

Sergej,

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:10 PM,  <sergej.bauer@...il.com> wrote:
> mkopci (MB11.xx) device (RC Module project) provides data transference through a serial bus bar according to MIL-STD-1553.
> the driver used for operating devices, reads PCI configuration space and pass interrupts to user-space applications.
>
> Please consider adding this patch to the linux-next queue.

>From a quick look I'd suggest to get the driver first in shape.

- You add new proc files, which is not really welcomed. Please consider sysfs.
- In the debug prints you compare against current->comm, also not nice.
- You use printk() in the interrupt handler.
- Why is this a misc driver at all? Does it really not fit into any
other device class?
- I'm sure running checkpatch.pl against the patch would also not hurt. :)

-- 
Thanks,
//richard
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