linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: vchiq: Update TODO file

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Date:   Tue, 28 Sep 2021 09:10:44 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin98@...il.com>
Cc:     nsaenz@...nel.org, stefan.wahren@...e.com,
        dan.carpenter@...cle.com, phil@...pberrypi.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: vchiq: Update TODO file

On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 11:43:23PM +0530, Ojaswin Mujoo wrote:
> Remove completed tasks from TODO and add some relevant details to task
> 14.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin98@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/TODO | 43 ++++----------------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/TODO b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/TODO
> index 39810ce017cd..5a6b3fc2663a 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/TODO
> +++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/TODO
> @@ -16,23 +16,6 @@ some of the ones we want:
>    to manage these buffers as dmabufs so that we can zero-copy import
>    camera images into vc4 for rendering/display.
>  
> -2) Garbage-collect unused code
> -
> -One of the reasons this driver wasn't upstreamed previously was that
> -there's a lot code that got built that's probably unnecessary these
> -days.  Once we have the set of VCHI-using drivers we want in tree, we
> -should be able to do a sweep of the code to see what's left that's
> -unused.
> -
> -3) Make driver more portable
> -
> -Building this driver with arm/multi_v7_defconfig or arm64/defconfig
> -leads to data corruption during the following command:
> -
> -  vchiq_test -f 1
> -
> -This should be fixed.
> -
>  4) Fix kernel module support

Now the numbering is out of order?

How about a first patch to remove the numbering and just replace it with
a list of items that are not numbered, and then remove the tasks that
are already done?

thanks,

greg k-h