Re: [RFC] dynamic_debug: introduce debug_hex_dump()

["Luis R. Rodriguez" <rodrigue@qca.qualcomm.com>]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:24:04PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-12-11 at 12:12 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 03:08:31PM -0500, Jason Baron wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:36:46AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 11:28:26AM +0200, Vladimir Kondratiev wrote:
> > > > > Hi Jason,
> > > > > 
> > > > > Do you have any update on the status for patches below?
> > > > > Where is it now? When do you expect it to merge? 3.8?
> > > > > I am waiting for this to merge before I can go on
> > > > > with my driver.
> > > > 
> > > > *poke*
> > > > 
> > > >   Luis
> > > 
> > > Hi Luis,
> > > 
> > > Yes, I posted this patch, along with 2 others last week for Greg to
> > > pull. I believe these are too late for the 3.8 merge window. Perhaps,
> > > Greg can comment. Here's a link to the post:
> > > 
> > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=135474417810281&w=2
> > 
> > Yes it's too late, these will go into linux-next after 3.8-rc1 is out.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> > 
> 
> Vladimir, sorry about this.
> 
> I suggest you prefix/rename and include these functions directly into
> your driver and later after 3.9 is out you could again rename the
> local calls to the now generic kernel functions and delete the local
> ones.

Vladimir, to be clear, you can continue with waiting for the patches
to get into 3.9 but that will take a while but given that you want
your driver in 3.8 you can fold those routines into your driver as
you had before but with a rename by adding a prefix and sumbit that
driver and specify it is for 3.8.

> Your driver is for new hardware, so even now it should be able to
> go into 3.8.

Agreed.

  Luis