From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>, Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
Myron Stowe <myron.stowe@hp.com>,
openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipmi: Fix memleaking for add_smi when duplicating happen
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:42:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C4EF03D.2000307@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C4E6363.7060705@kernel.org>
On 07/26/2010 11:41 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On 07/26/2010 07:05 PM, Corey Minyard wrote:
>
>> Please run this through checkpatch, as it has coding style violations.
>>
> yhlu@linux-siqj:~/xx/xx/kernel/tip/linux-2.6> ./scripts/checkpatch.pl patches/ipmi_reg_size.patch
> total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 105 lines checked
>
> patches/ipmi_reg_size.patch has no obvious style problems and is ready for submission.
> yhlu@linux-siqj:~/xx/xx/kernel/tip/linux-2.6>
>
Sorry, you are right.
>
>> Also, this patch appears to fix bugs in addition to adding the print.
>> Can we have a separate patch for that?
>>
> in the comment log, i already mentioned that.
>
> will separate it to twol
>
Ok, thanks
>
>> I'm also not clear on the reason for this. I believe all this
>> information is already available in /proc/ipmi/<if#>/params. I don't
>> think there is a strong reason to print it to the log.
>>
> then why there is printing for ACPI path and pci path?
>
Well, I'm not sure on this. You are right, it is printed for those
paths and not for DMI or SPMI cases. Printing too much information is
not generally a good idea, but this may be useful. I guess to make it
consistent it would be best to add this.
-corey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-27 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-27 1:25 [PATCH] ipmi: Fix memleaking for add_smi when duplicating happen Yinghai Lu
2010-07-27 2:05 ` Corey Minyard
2010-07-27 4:41 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-07-27 14:42 ` Corey Minyard [this message]
2010-07-27 4:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Yinghai Lu
2010-07-27 15:44 ` Myron Stowe
2010-07-27 4:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] ipmi: print info for spmi and smbios path like acpi and pci Yinghai Lu
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