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

[Thomas Gleixner]

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?

The only reaction so far was a hasty commit of cosmetic add ons to my
findings at [1] accompanied with the following mail which was not a
direct reply to my patches but merily a new mail to the can mailing
list:

  " Subject: [PATCH 1/2] can: c_can: improve error checking

    as mentioned in the other mail, a patch that adds return value
    checking to all users of c_can_set_bittiming(). Another patch adds
    the missing netif_napi_del(). Feel free to include the patches in
    your series or use the testing-c_can branch [1] as your git base.
  "

I'm really grateful, that you allowed me to include these patches to
my series. But that does not help anything at all:

 - The driver is still broken as it has been for years

 - You as the maintainer reacted by submitting a pointless patch to
   base my series on instead of applying the obvious and well
   documented bug fixes right away.

 - Just for the record, the series fixes the fatal issues of that
   driver with and without the extra cosmetic fixes which are just a
   supplement for the real issues.
  
What's going on here?  Are we going to have another few kernel
releases with a completely defunct driver in place?

Thanks,

	tglx
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[1] git://gitorious.org/linux-can/linux-can-next.git testing-c_can

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