Re: Telecom Clock driver for MPCBL0010 ATCA compute blade.

[Jesper Juhl]

On 8/30/05, Mark Gross <mgross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:31, Mark Gross wrote:
> > On Tuesday 30 August 2005 12:16, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > >
> > > Mark,
> > >
> > > Please fix identation accordingly to CodingStyle and repost, it
> > > looks quite ugly at the moment.
> > >
> > Sorry about that.
> >
> 
> My email client is f-ing with me.  See attached.
> 

ok, a few small comments  : 


+/* sysFS interface definition:

Isn't it just called "sysfs" without the caps?

+Uppon loading the driver will create a sysfs directory under class/misc/tlclk.

s/Uppon/Upon/

+This directory exports the following interfaces.  There opperation is
documented

Line is longer than 80 chars - there are a few more such long lines,
not going to point them all out, just one example. Ohh, and
"opperation" should be "operation".

+All sysfs interaces are integers in hex format, i.e echo 99 > refalign

s/interaces/interfaces/

+#if CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL

I believe this should be "#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL" or "#if
defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL)" or you'll run afoul of the -Wundef
crowd.

+	int ret_val = 0;

There seems to be a preference for the name "retval" in the kernel source.

+	val = (unsigned char)arg;


That cast looks pointless.

+tlclk_read(struct file * filp, char __user * buf, size_t count, loff_t * f_pos)


tlclk_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *f_pos)
"*" next to the variable name is generally the preffered coding style
(several cases of this, only pointing out one).

+	val = (unsigned char)tmp;

pointless cast. Do take a look at all your casts and check if they are
really needed and remove them if not.

+ * This is also the probe opperation to avoid driver use on 

s/opperation/operation/

+/*	switchover_timer.function = switchover_timeout; */

+/*	switchover_timer.data = 0; */

Why submit a driver with commented out code? If this is not supposed
to be there, then just remove it. If it needs to be added later, then
submit a patch later to add it.
Some people may disagree with me here, but that's my oppinion.

+      out3:


labels belong at column 0 (zero).


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