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From: Saiyam Doshi <saiyamdoshi.in@gmail.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: groeck@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	groeck@chromium.org, adurbin@chromium.org, dlaurie@chromium.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gsmi: replace printk with relevant dev_<level>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 23:46:06 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190614181606.GA4448@ahmlpt0706> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190614060919.GA7271@kroah.com>

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 08:09:19AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 12:27:05AM +0530, Saiyam Doshi wrote:
> > Replace printk() with dev_* macros for logging consistency.
> > In process of replacing printk with dev_err, dev_info etc.,
> > removed unnecessary "out of memory" debug message.
> 
> That is multiple things done in the same patch, please break this up
> into a patch series, only doing one "logical" thing per patch.

Agreed. I could have broken it into patch set.

> Note, generic cleanup patches like this are tough to get done in the
> "real" part of the kernel, I strongly recommend you start out in
> drivers/staging/ where these types of changes are welcomed.  Get
> experience there and then move out into other areas of the kernel if you
> want to, that way you don't annoy developers/maintainers with basic
> errors like this.
> 
> good luck!

Noted. Thanks Greg for feedback and suggestion.

      reply	other threads:[~2019-06-14 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-13 18:57 [PATCH] gsmi: replace printk with relevant dev_<level> Saiyam Doshi
2019-06-14  6:09 ` Greg KH
2019-06-14 18:16   ` Saiyam Doshi [this message]

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