Re: [PATCH v7 2/3] aerdrv: Enhanced AER logging

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 04:14:14PM +0000, Ortiz, Lance E wrote:
> I removed the prefix argument because it was never used by its caller
> and never set. The reason I added the prefix variable and set it to
> NULL was to help in breaking up the patch and adding it would help the
> intermittent patch build without changing too much code. I knew I was
> actually going to use the variable in patch 3.

No, the correct way to do that is to keep all changes that belong
logically together in a single patch for ease of reviewing and avoid
breakages. And in your case this should be pretty easy: simply move all
the 'prefix' touching code to patch #3 and you're done, AFAICT.

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.
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