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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
To: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"ath10k@lists.infradead.org" <ath10k@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath10k: unify warning messages in mac.c
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:16:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k3c1gf35.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8761nv44nd.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (Kalle Valo's message of "Mon, 3 Mar 2014 18:40:22 +0200")

Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> writes:

>> I think we should agree on one of the two approaches:
>>
>> a) start with a verb:
>>
>> "failed to add peer %pM on vdev %i: %d"
>> "failed to initialize dfs pattern detector"
>> "timed out while waiting for scan completion"
>>
>> b) start with a noun:
>>
>> "peer %pM on vdev %i could not be added: %d"
>> "dfs pattern detector could not initialize"
>> "scan timed out"
>>
>> These are still mixed.
>>
>> We could probably also limit the set of verbs, e.g. replace "could
>> not" with "failed to" as it's practically the same thing (assuming we
>> pick (a)).
>
> That's true. I would vote for option (a).

I didn't get any comments about Michal's proposal. Can I conclude from
this that (a) above is ok for everyone?

-- 
Kalle Valo

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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
To: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"ath10k@lists.infradead.org" <ath10k@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath10k: unify warning messages in mac.c
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:16:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k3c1gf35.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8761nv44nd.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (Kalle Valo's message of "Mon, 3 Mar 2014 18:40:22 +0200")

Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> writes:

>> I think we should agree on one of the two approaches:
>>
>> a) start with a verb:
>>
>> "failed to add peer %pM on vdev %i: %d"
>> "failed to initialize dfs pattern detector"
>> "timed out while waiting for scan completion"
>>
>> b) start with a noun:
>>
>> "peer %pM on vdev %i could not be added: %d"
>> "dfs pattern detector could not initialize"
>> "scan timed out"
>>
>> These are still mixed.
>>
>> We could probably also limit the set of verbs, e.g. replace "could
>> not" with "failed to" as it's practically the same thing (assuming we
>> pick (a)).
>
> That's true. I would vote for option (a).

I didn't get any comments about Michal's proposal. Can I conclude from
this that (a) above is ok for everyone?

-- 
Kalle Valo

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-11 11:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-03 15:43 [PATCH] ath10k: unify warning messages in mac.c Kalle Valo
2014-03-03 15:43 ` Kalle Valo
2014-03-03 16:23 ` Michal Kazior
2014-03-03 16:23   ` Michal Kazior
2014-03-03 16:40   ` Kalle Valo
2014-03-03 16:40     ` Kalle Valo
2014-03-11 11:16     ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2014-03-11 11:16       ` Kalle Valo
2014-03-11 17:37       ` Ben Greear
2014-03-11 17:37         ` Ben Greear
2014-03-11 17:46         ` Joe Perches
2014-03-11 17:46           ` Joe Perches
2014-03-11 17:56           ` Ben Greear
2014-03-11 17:56             ` Ben Greear
2014-03-11 18:08             ` Joe Perches
2014-03-11 18:08               ` Joe Perches
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-03-24 15:00 Kalle Valo
2014-03-24 15:00 ` Kalle Valo

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