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

From: Marc Kleine-Budde
Date: Tue Apr 01 2014 - 04:09:43 EST


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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