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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com, joe@perches.com, mingo@elte.hu,
	nooiwa@miraclelinux.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [folded] kernelh-add-printk_ratelimited-and-pr_level_rl-rename.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:28:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091215132803.2e5ee7bc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1260872882.4165.353.camel@twins>

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:28:02 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 17:08 -0800, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> > s/_rl/_ratelimited/g
> 
> do we feel this pr_* wankery is worth the hassle? I'd as soon send a
> patch removing all this crap.

I thought it was just me.  No, I find it a net negative, but I don't
work on drivers all day.

otoh, every second driver seems to find it necessary to invent its own
handy printk wrappers, so being able to point people at standardized
ones does offer some improvement over that.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-15 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200912150108.nBF18TNx015047@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 10:28 ` [folded] kernelh-add-printk_ratelimited-and-pr_level_rl-rename.patch removed from -mm tree Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-15 21:28   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-12-15 22:44   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-12-16 10:48     ` Peter Zijlstra

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