linux-kernel - Re: Question about mv_print_info in sata_mv.c in sata

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Date:	Fri, 26 Dec 2014 16:11:14 -0500
From:	"tj@...nel.org >> Tejun Heo" <tj@...nel.org>
To:	nick <xerofoify@...il.com>
Cc:	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question about mv_print_info in sata_mv.c in sata_mv.c

Hello, Nick.

On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 04:06:11PM -0500, nick wrote:
> I am assuming after reading this function's code, that this function is completed and no longer
> needs a fix me comment above it to be completed.

I do appreciate that you're studying the FIXME comments but at this
point I'm not sure whether blindly chasing them and asking people
whether they're still necessary is a productive thing to do.  If
they're actively misleading, sure, let's remove them, but FIXME in a
sata_mv function which prints some controller identification
information just doesn't matter.  If you can assert that the comment
is no longer necessary and misleading, please submit a patch with
backing rationale; otherwise, obsessing with each instance of FIXME
comment doesn't seem to be a particularly productive way of
participating in kernel development.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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