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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, swetland@google.com,
	Sherwin Soltani <sherwin@wybc.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: staging: android: fix binder.c printk macros
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:24:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120625172423.GA1935@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1340644800.3359.1.camel@joe2Laptop>

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:20:00AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 10:17 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 02:09:41AM -0400, Sherwin Soltani wrote:
> > > Changed to pr_warn, pr_err, and pr_info macros and reformatted some
> > > lines to bring them under the 80 column limit in the binder.c code.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Sherwin Soltani <sherwin@wybc.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/staging/android/binder.c |   74 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------
> > >  1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This is the friendly patch-bot of Greg Kroah-Hartman.  You have sent him
> > a patch that has triggered this response.  He used to manually respond
> > to these common problems, but in order to save his sanity (he kept
> > writing the same thing over and over, yet to different people), I was
> > created.  Hopefully you will not take offence and will fix the problem
> > in your patch and resubmit it so that it can be accepted into the Linux
> > kernel tree.
> 
> > You are receiving this message because of the following common error(s)
> > as indicated below:
> > 
> > ---   Your patch did many different things all at once, making it
> >       difficult to review.
> 
> Your patch-bot needs work.
> 
> Converting printks to pr_<level> is trivial
> and should be done all at once, not piecemeal.

I'm not disagreeing with that, unfortunately this patch also did more
than just pr_<level> conversions, which is why my patch-bot kicked in.

So your patch-bot complaint generator needs work :)

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-25 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-23  6:09 [PATCH] drivers: staging: android: fix binder.c printk macros Sherwin Soltani
2012-06-25 17:17 ` Greg KH
2012-06-25 17:20   ` Joe Perches
2012-06-25 17:24     ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-06-25 17:30       ` Joe Perches
2012-06-25 17:45         ` Greg KH

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