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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] drivers/net/vxge: Use pr_<level>, fix logging
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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:43:35 -0700
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On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 16:38 -0500, Jon Mason wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 01:43:08PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Use direct printing of logging messages to save text.
> I have a similar patch queued internally (pending testing).

Great.

[]

> Why not make the entire vxge_debug part of vxge_debug_ll?  If
> disabled, that code can be removed completely as it is unnecessary.
> Also, why not call printk directly from vxge_debug?  This code had too
> many levels of indirection before, remove all of them (as that is way
> I did in the internal patch).

'cause I don't really want to figure out the nesting,
I just want it to be smaller and easier to understand.

> I did not have any of these changes in my patch.  If you want to push
> this seperately, I ack it.

I'll resend separately.

cheers, Joe