linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86: efi: refactor efi

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Date:	Thu, 5 Jan 2012 09:49:19 -0800
From:	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
To:	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86: efi: refactor efi_init() a bit

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 09:11 -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
>> Break out some of the init steps into helper functions.
>>
>> No code changes at all, identical execution flow.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
>> ---
>>  arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c |   89 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>>  1 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
>
> Makes sense. I've got one tiny comment below, but other than that feel
> free to add,
>
> Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>
>
>>       if (memmap.desc_size != sizeof(efi_memory_desc_t))
>> -             printk(KERN_WARNING
>> -               "Kernel-defined memdesc doesn't match the one from EFI!\n");
>> +             printk(KERN_WARNING "Kernel-defined memdesc doesn't match the "
>> +                    "one from EFI!\n");
>
> This sort of thing is generally discouraged because splitting a printk
> string across more than one line makes it harder to grep for. I'm not
> sure this hunk is an improvement.

Agreed, and in this particular case it was just churn.

I've taken a couple of liberties with the 80-character limit instead
in the revised patch set. For the ones that would go way above 80 I
still broke them in two lines though.


Thanks,

-Olof
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