Thanks for all comments. I had run checkpatch and corrected all errors excepting a few errors about some macros and the warning about the typedefs. The mail client I used to send the patch folded lines at arbitrary points introduced several trailing white space. This was also the reason for one of the patch not applying clean. We will use git to generate the patches as suggested.
Our desire to share common code across drivers for other OSes has been a cause for some ugliness in coding styles. I have one question about bit fields. Several of headers in the common code are generated by srcgen from f/w source files. Some of the structures in these headers have bit fields (with separate definitions for little endian and big endian hosts). Are these un-acceptable in Linux driver submissions ? Thanks. Subbu -------------------------------------- From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Sent: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:44:45 -0800 Subject: Re: [PATHCH 1/16] ServerEngines 10Gb NIC driver Do all vendor drivers have to come in with the same mistakes. Where is the vendor driver ugly school, and how can the Linux developers teach there? Run this through checkpatch script or just read some of the things that a quick scan shows. <snip> ___________________________________________________________________________________ This message, together with any attachment(s), contains confidential and proprietary information of ServerEngines Corporation and is intended only for the designated recipient(s) named above. Any unauthorized review, printing, retention, copying, disclosure or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please immediately advise the sender by reply email message and delete all copies of this message and any attachment(s). Thank you. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html