From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: rth@twiddle.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ALPHA] Update for "name" out of struct device.
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 13:32:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030818203200.GA3067@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030818165109.GG24693@gtf.org>
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:51:09PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:45:12PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > What do you think about the following patch? It follows the style of
> > other PCI core messages, and prints out the same information as before.
>
> ...except for the pretty name, of course.
>
> But IMO we need to stop drivers and core from printing out pretty-name
> at all, which is another reason for my patch. Having name information
> like this in the kernel, overall, is a waste, IMO. _Especially_ when
> that information is conditional. We should be consistent with what we
> print out, to reduce user confusion.
Hence "pci_name()" :)
greg k-h
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2003-08-18 16:45 ` [ALPHA] Update for "name" out of struct device Jeff Garzik
2003-08-18 16:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-18 20:32 ` Greg KH [this message]
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