linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL/RESEND] kernel message catalog patches

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Date:	Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:01:28 +0100
From:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL/RESEND] kernel message catalog patches

On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 12:12 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Oct 2008, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> > > But if it's in-kernel, other people are then going to complain about them 
> > > not being maintained. And quite frankly, I'm neither willing nor 
> > > interested in hearing those complaints or making them more "valid".
> > 
> > The usual answer to complaints of this sort is "send a patch", isn't it?
> 
> Yes. And why don't you do all that, and not involve me at all, and keep 
> all of this entirely out of the kernel?

Ok, understood. Not that the reaction surprises me, seems like nobody
likes documentation (including me). What I will do is to replace the
kmsg_xxx macros with the pr_xxx macros in the device drivers patches and
request the pull as a cleanup for 2.6.29. The out-of-tree kmsg patches
will then play tricks with pr_xxx analog to dev_xxx. That way the patch
should be minimal.

-- 
blue skies,
  Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.


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