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July 4: Meeting with Marty: There are obviously some shortcommings in my driver design; As my driver progress has been good up to this point, I'm going to take a step back for a while and do some personal education on other drivers and driver structure; Marty asked me to profile some drivers (r8169 and 3c90x specificly) and create outlines for each driver. I'm still not directly sure on the intention behind this; I feel a little bit like the karatee kid painting a fence. July 5: I outlined r8169 -> see notes July 6: I outlined 3c90x -> see notes. While looking at 3c90x (in comparison to the outline I had done while looking through r8169), I noticed a missing memset. In theory, this shouldn't make a difference as I assume that the usage of the variables that are used are independant of the "initialization" that is done to the memory before it is used, however, all variables *should* be propperly initialized. I will speek with Marty about his opinion on this. I'm not sure if this is some sort of optimization or if it was unintentionally left out. July 7: I'm currently working on the SKGE driver outline, in the same format as r8169 and 3c90x. -> see notes. July 8: Worked on a new outline for skge, worked on a new version of probe. Power failure. Nothing to show for it :( July 9-10: Missing my pills; with out them I can't stay awake at a keyboard. July 11: Meeting with mentors. Informed that I need to make some "major progress" by monday, or be failed. -- Chris
