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Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] docg3: Fix miuse of seq_printf return value
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 12:05 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 08:57:57 -0700
> Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 11:13 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > I'm going to be working on changes to remove the return value of
> > > seq_printf() and friends.
> > 
> > I'm sure you know all of this, but for anyone else:
> > 
> > This doesn't need to be done in a single pass.
> 
> Yeah, I took a look at all the places, and I've decided to take it off
> in chunks. I'm starting with the ones you posted, and will try to get
> acks for them. And then go after other chunks as I have time.
> 
> I would like to get this done before I do my merge of trace_seq and
> seq_file, but I'm thinking I may have to do that in parallel.

I think the most important thing is to get the
seq_is_overflown (or seq_has_overflowed or whatever
other name is chosen) function added then the rest
of the patches can be applied whenever maintainers
(or Andrew or trivial or ...) pick them up.