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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Emil Goode <emilgoode@gmail.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com, andrew@lunn.ch,
	Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>,
	Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: orion_nand: Improve error handling in orion_nand_probe
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 23:57:47 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130609205747.GX23987@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHp75VcOMUVtfgXOQ+cyVpJN-XS7=yO1H8+8Nnw+LCgYWp7RPw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 10:27:03PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 08:15:20PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> 
> []
> 
> >> What about another patch (that I guess should go first)  that converts
> >> printk to dev_* or pr_*?
> 
> > Huh, what?  Those are two totally unrelated things.  Emil's patch is
> > a bug fix.
> 
> To be precise his patch is bugfix and cleanup at once.
> My proposal is to add a clean up patch.

The printk idea isn't a bad one, it's just totally unrelated to what
the patch is doing.  You can't just randomly tell people to do a
bunch of work for no reason.  "Good bugfix, but before we apply it
you have to mow my lawn."

regards,
dan carpenter

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-09 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-09  9:08 [PATCH] mtd: orion_nand: Improve error handling in orion_nand_probe Emil Goode
2013-06-09 17:15 ` Andy Shevchenko
2013-06-09 19:17   ` Dan Carpenter
2013-06-09 19:27     ` Andy Shevchenko
2013-06-09 20:57       ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2013-06-09 21:15         ` Andy Shevchenko
2013-06-09 22:45           ` Emil Goode

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