Re: [PATCH] drivers/hwmon: Use pr_fmt and pr_

Jean Delvare
2010-10-20T16:45:35Z

Hi Joe,

On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:08:10 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 07:46 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > * That being said, now that the hwmon subsystem maintainer is a shared
> > > duty between Guenter and myself, there's no single place where we can
> > > keep a patch touching many drivers and ensure it doesn't conflict
> > > with the changes in the other tree. But I would think this is
> > > something for Gunter and myself to sort out, not patch contributors.
>
> Perhaps allow both maintainers read/write access to hwmon-next?

Guenter and myself are collaborating on the hwmon tree since a
relatively recent date. We still have to find the best method. For now
we have separate trees because it seemed easier that way, but we may
change our minds later.

> > > I currently have pending patches to the following hwmon drivers in my
> > > tree: adt7475, ams, asc7621, hdaps, it87, k8temp, lm75, lm85, lm90,
> > > pcf8591, s3c-hwmon, w83795. Two of these are affected by Joe's
> > > patch(es). Guenter, what about you?
> >
> > coretemp, pkgtemp, via-cputemp, ltc4261 (new), lis3, hp_accel
>
> I did these against next which includes 'hwmon-staging/hwmon-next'.
>
> Shouldn't these patches apply without modification or do I need
> to do something else?

If you based your patches on linux-next then you're all set. I was
asking Guenter about his affected drivers only to decide who, of him and
me, should take which patch.

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Jean Delvare