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Date:	Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:15:22 +0300
From:	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	Emil Goode <emilgoode@...il.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	artem.bityutskiy@...ux.intel.com, andrew@...n.ch,
	Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@...ginia.edu>,
	Jingoo Han <jg1.han@...sung.com>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: orion_nand: Improve error handling in orion_nand_probe

On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 10:27:03PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 08:15:20PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

>> >> What about another patch (that I guess should go first)  that converts
>> >> printk to dev_* or pr_*?
>>
>> > Huh, what?  Those are two totally unrelated things.  Emil's patch is
>> > a bug fix.
>>
>> To be precise his patch is bugfix and cleanup at once.
>> My proposal is to add a clean up patch.
>
> The printk idea isn't a bad one, it's just totally unrelated to what
> the patch is doing.

I don't agree with word 'totally'. It touches probe function and
shuffles code there.

>  You can't just randomly tell people to do a
> bunch of work for no reason.  "Good bugfix, but before we apply it
> you have to mow my lawn."

In this particular case I didn't think it's a big deal to fix 3 printfs.
Anyway, see patch in the next message.


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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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