linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers: staging: android: fix binder.c printk macros

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:24:23 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, swetland@...gle.com,
	Sherwin Soltani <sherwin@...c.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: staging: android: fix binder.c printk macros

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:20:00AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 10:17 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 02:09:41AM -0400, Sherwin Soltani wrote:
> > > Changed to pr_warn, pr_err, and pr_info macros and reformatted some
> > > lines to bring them under the 80 column limit in the binder.c code.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Sherwin Soltani <sherwin@...c.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/staging/android/binder.c |   74 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------
> > >  1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This is the friendly patch-bot of Greg Kroah-Hartman.  You have sent him
> > a patch that has triggered this response.  He used to manually respond
> > to these common problems, but in order to save his sanity (he kept
> > writing the same thing over and over, yet to different people), I was
> > created.  Hopefully you will not take offence and will fix the problem
> > in your patch and resubmit it so that it can be accepted into the Linux
> > kernel tree.
> 
> > You are receiving this message because of the following common error(s)
> > as indicated below:
> > 
> > ---   Your patch did many different things all at once, making it
> >       difficult to review.
> 
> Your patch-bot needs work.
> 
> Converting printks to pr_<level> is trivial
> and should be done all at once, not piecemeal.

I'm not disagreeing with that, unfortunately this patch also did more
than just pr_<level> conversions, which is why my patch-bot kicked in.

So your patch-bot complaint generator needs work :)

greg k-h
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