From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 16 May 2022 16:50:12 +0200 From: Petr Mladek Subject: Re: [PATCH 23/30] printk: kmsg_dump: Introduce helper to inform number of dumpers Message-ID: References: <20220427224924.592546-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com> <20220427224924.592546-24-gpiccoli@igalia.com> <20220510134014.3923ccba@gandalf.local.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-um" Errors-To: linux-um-bounces+geert=linux-m68k.org@lists.infradead.org To: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" Cc: Steven Rostedt , akpm@linux-foundation.org, bhe@redhat.com, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org, linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-remoteproc@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, linux-um@lists.infradead.org, linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, rcu@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, x86@kernel.org, kernel-dev@igalia.com, kernel@gpiccoli.net, halves@canonical.com, fabiomirmar@gmail.com, alejandro.j.jimenez@oracle.com, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, arnd@arndb.de, bp@alien8.de, corbet@lwn.net, d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, dyoung@redhat.com, feng.tang@intel.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, mikelley@microsoft.com, hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com, jgross@suse.com, john.ogness@linutronix.de, keescook@chromium.org, luto@kernel.org, mhiramat@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, paulmck@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, senozhatsky@chromium.org, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, tglx@linutronix.de, vgoyal@redhat.com, vkuznets@redhat.com, will@kernel.org On Wed 2022-05-11 17:03:51, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote: > On 10/05/2022 14:40, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Apr 2022 19:49:17 -0300 > > "Guilherme G. Piccoli" wrote: > > > >> Currently we don't have a way to check if there are dumpers set, > >> except counting the list members maybe. This patch introduces a very > >> simple helper to provide this information, by just keeping track of > >> registered/unregistered kmsg dumpers. It's going to be used on the > >> panic path in the subsequent patch. > > > > FYI, it is considered "bad form" to reference in the change log "this > > patch". We know this is a patch. The change log should just talk about what > > is being done. So can you reword your change logs (you do this is almost > > every patch). Here's what I would reword the above to be: > > > > Currently we don't have a way to check if there are dumpers set, except > > perhaps by counting the list members. Introduce a very simple helper to > > provide this information, by just keeping track of registered/unregistered > > kmsg dumpers. This will simplify the refactoring of the panic path. > > Thanks for the hint, you're right - it's almost in all of my patches. > I'll reword all of them (except the ones already merged) to remove this > "bad form". Shame on me that I do not care that much about the style of the commit message :-) Anyway, the code looks good to me. With the better commit message: Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Best Regards, Petr _______________________________________________ linux-um mailing list linux-um@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-um