linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add Firmware Info, Warn, and Bug messages

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Date:	Mon, 02 Dec 2013 09:34:03 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add Firmware Info, Warn, and Bug messages

On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 10:19 -0500, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> Logging and tracking firmware bugs in the kernel has long been an issue
> for system administrators.  The current kernel does not have a good
> uniform method of reporting firmware bugs and the code in the kernel is a
> mix of printk's and WARN_ONs.  This causes problems for both system
> administrators and QA engineers who attempt to diagnose problems within
> the kernel.

It'd be simpler if you introduced the macros in one patch
and then added patches that used them separately.

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