linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH v7 3/3] aerdrv: Cleanup log output for CPER based AER

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Date:	Wed, 5 Dec 2012 16:16:31 +0000
From:	"Ortiz, Lance E" <lance.oritz@...com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v7 3/3] aerdrv: Cleanup log output for CPER based AER

> 
> Here it is, you're initializing 'prefix' here although it is being
> used in the previous patch. You should concentrate the whole prefix
> initialization and passing in one patch so that there are no breakages.

Yes I probably could have broken up the patches in a cleaner way.  Thanks.

> 
> Also, why is it exactly 44 chars long, is that some magic number
> that always works? At least this is what aer_print_error does
> too. I'm guessing someone chose it because it is large enough for
> dev_driver_string() and dev_name() and a couple more formatting
> characters. Oh well.
> 

Yes, I was using the same code as in aer_print_error.  This was brought up in a previous mail with Joe and we discussed cleaning all of this up in a later patch.

Lance