xref: /openbmc/linux/drivers/staging/qlge/TODO (revision aa74c44b)
1* commit 7c734359d350 ("qlge: Size RX buffers based on MTU.", v2.6.33-rc1)
2  introduced dead code in the receive routines, which should be rewritten
3  anyways by the admission of the author himself, see the comment above
4  ql_build_rx_skb(). That function is now used exclusively to handle packets
5  that underwent header splitting but it still contains code to handle non
6  split cases.
7* truesize accounting is incorrect (ex: a 9000B frame has skb->truesize 10280
8  while containing two frags of order-1 allocations, ie. >16K)
9* while in that area, using two 8k buffers to store one 9k frame is a poor
10  choice of buffer size.
11* in the "chain of large buffers" case, the driver uses an skb allocated with
12  head room but only puts data in the frags.
13* rename "rx" queues to "completion" queues. Calling tx completion queues "rx
14  queues" is confusing.
15* struct rx_ring is used for rx and tx completions, with some members relevant
16  to one case only
17* the flow control implementation in firmware is buggy (sends a flood of pause
18  frames, resets the link, device and driver buffer queues become
19  desynchronized), disable it by default
20* some structures are initialized redundantly (ex. memset 0 after
21  alloc_etherdev())
22* the driver has a habit of using runtime checks where compile time checks are
23  possible (ex. ql_free_rx_buffers(), ql_alloc_rx_buffers())
24* reorder struct members to avoid holes if it doesn't impact performance
25* avoid legacy/deprecated apis (ex. replace pci_dma_*, replace pci_enable_msi,
26  use pci_iomap)
27* some "while" loops could be rewritten with simple "for", ex.
28  ql_wait_reg_rdy(), ql_start_rx_ring())
29* remove duplicate and useless comments
30* fix weird line wrapping (all over, ex. the ql_set_routing_reg() calls in
31  qlge_set_multicast_list()).
32* fix weird indentation (all over, ex. the for loops in qlge_get_stats())
33* fix checkpatch issues
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