Re: staging: ks7010: Replace three printk() calls by pr_err()

From: SF Markus Elfring
Date: Sun Aug 14 2016 - 06:04:13 EST


> You might have noticed I also wrote in the same reply:
>
> "All of these pr_fmt uses are redundant as pr_err already does pr_fmt"

I admit that I made another software development mistake there. - It might not matter much
when a final fix could be to get rid of the three affected logging calls for example.


> It is not just principle.
> It is a fundamental for kernel patch submission.

I hope that this view supports still the reordering for update steps after some discussion.


> I am not an upstream path.
> Greg KH generally serves that function here.
> My suggestion would be to resend the entire patchset as V(n+1).

I am curious if it would make sense to reduce the mail traffic a bit by finding out
which software changes can be accepted already.

Regards,
Markus