linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] mtd: ubi: Extend UBI layer debug/messaging capabilities

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Date:	Tue, 14 Oct 2014 12:31:02 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>,
	Tanya Brokhman <tlinder@...eaurora.org>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] mtd: ubi: Extend UBI layer debug/messaging
 capabilities

On Tue, 2014-10-14 at 16:18 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> On 14 Oct 12:13 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-10-14 at 15:47 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
[]
> > > When the gendisk is not available, a simple pr_{} would work.
> > 
> > Or maybe combine these in the ubi_<level> calls passing
> > NULL when there is no struct ubi_device *
[]
> Isn't this excessive obfuscation? What's the benefit of it?

Single error message type.

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