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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org, rui.zhang@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI video: Be more liberal in validating _BQC behaviour
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:38:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100222173836.GA24808@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201002221824.16920.trenn@suse.de>

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 06:24:16PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote:

> Can you use:
> printk(KERN_WARNING FW_WARN "%s returned an invalid level", buf);
> instead please.
> It would be great if major kernel contributors, especially those working
> near the BIOS do make use of the FW_* strings more often!

I could, but I don't see there being any real benefit in doing so while 
the rest of the file doesn't make use of it. It seems like a reasonable 
thing to do in a followup patch.

> Cleaning up existing messages is one (work intensive) thing, but please
> use it to identify new BIOS issues.

This is just moving an existing warning, rather than adding a new issue.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

      reply	other threads:[~2010-02-22 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-16 21:53 [PATCH] ACPI video: Be more liberal in validating _BQC behaviour Matthew Garrett
2010-02-19  6:40 ` Len Brown
2010-02-19 13:54   ` Matthew Garrett
2010-02-22  1:51     ` Zhang Rui
2010-02-22  2:06       ` Matthew Garrett
2010-02-23  6:29         ` Zhang Rui
2010-02-22 17:24 ` Thomas Renninger
2010-02-22 17:38   ` Matthew Garrett [this message]

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