linux-kernel - Re: powerpc/fadump: trivial fix of spelling mistake, clean up message

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Date:	Tue, 28 Jun 2016 13:50:12 +1000
From:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:	Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <trivial@...nel.org>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: powerpc/fadump: trivial fix of spelling mistake, clean up
 message

On Mon, 2016-06-27 at 12:34 +0100, Colin Ian King wrote:
> On 27/06/16 12:20, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > On Mon, 2016-06-27 at 03:51 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2016-06-27 at 11:38 +0100, Colin Ian King wrote:
> > > > On 26/06/16 05:19, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, 2016-24-06 at 17:43:00 UTC, Colin King wrote:
> > > > > > trivial fix to spelling mistake "rgistration" and minor clean up
> > > > > > of the printk error message
> > > > > Can you also:
> > > > >  - use pr_err()
> > > > >  - unsplit the message, ie. keep the string all on one line.
> > > > I can unsplit the string, but checkpatch will complain about that, so
> > > > I'm not sure if that's preferred or not.
> > > > 
> > > > WARNING: line over 80 characters
> > > 
> > > If the statement is wrapped after the format,
> > > then checkpatch shouldn't complain.
> > > 
> > > 	pr_err("Failed to invalidate firmware-assisted dump registration. Unexpected error (%d).\n",
> > > 	       rc);
> > 
> > But that's not actually any more readable, so just ignore checkpatch in this
> > case IMHO. It's a guide, not the gospel.
>
> OK, so shall I'll send a V3 w/o the spit and the pr_err fix?

Nah that's fine, I already grabbed v2.

cheers