netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] bluetooth: Use more current logging styles

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Message-ID: <1329410631.10890.3.camel@joe2Laptop>
Date:	Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:43:51 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Gustavo Padovan <padovan@...fusion.mobi>
Cc:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bluetooth: Use more current logging styles

On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 18:02 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 19:56 -0200, Gustavo Padovan wrote:
> > it is not really a good idea to change BT_INFO to
> > bt_info and BT_ERR to bt_err. I understand that capital letters are not the
> > standard here but such a change is painful for all Bluetooth developers and I
> > don't wanna give more trouble to them.
[]
> Standardization of use and style is a good thing.
> What kind of trouble is a case conversion?
> Out of tree modules?

I'm truly curious as to why you think a
case conversion is painful and trouble.

Backward compatibility could be added via:

#define BT_ERR(fmt, ...)	bt_err(fmt "\n", ##__VA_ARGS__)
#define BT_INFO(fmt, ...)	bt_info(fmt "\n", ##__VA_ARGS__)


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