linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH EDACv16 1/2] edac: Change internal representation to work with layers

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Date:	Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:38:41 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
Cc:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>,
	Linux Edac Mailing List <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Aristeu Rozanski <arozansk@...hat.com>,
	Doug Thompson <norsk5@...oo.com>,
	Mark Gross <mark.gross@...el.com>,
	Jason Uhlenkott <juhlenko@...mai.com>,
	Tim Small <tim@...tersideup.com>,
	Ranganathan Desikan <ravi@...ztechnologies.com>,
	"Arvind R." <arvino55@...il.com>, Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Egor Martovetsky <egor@...emi.com>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Hitoshi Mitake <h.mitake@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Niklas Söderlund 
	<niklas.soderlund@...csson.com>,
	Shaohui Xie <Shaohui.Xie@...escale.com>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH EDACv16 1/2] edac: Change internal representation to
 work with layers

On Sat, 2012-04-28 at 10:52 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 01:07:38PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > Yes. This is a common issue at the EDAC core: on several places, it calls the
> > edac debug macros (DEBUGF0...DEBUGF4) passing a __func__ as an argument, while
> > the debug macros already handles that. I suspect that, in the past, the __func__
> > were not at the macros, but some patch added it there, and forgot to fix the
> > occurrences of its call.
> 
> The patch that added it is d357cbb445208 and you reviewed it.
> 
> > This is something that needs to be reviewed at the entire EDAC core (and likely
> > at the drivers).
> 
> Looks like a job for a newbie to get her/his feet wet with kernel work.

Looks to me more like a lazy maintainer/developer who doesn't
want to bother with a few minutes work.


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