netdev - Re: [PATCH] sh_eth: fix garbled TX error message

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Date:	Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:49:32 +0400
From:	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sh_eth: fix garbled TX error message

Hello.

On 14-01-2014 11:29, David Miller wrote:

>> sh_eth_error() in case of a TX error tries to print a message using 2 dev_err()
>> calls with the first string not finished by '\n', so that the resulting message
>> would inevitably come out garbled, with something like "3net eth0: " inserted
>> in the middle.  Avoid that by merging 2 calls into one.

>> While at it, insert an empty line after the nearby declaration.

>> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>

> Applied, thanks.

> I don't think this is really -stable material, sorry.

    Right, this is not even a fix anymore, at least not from 2.6.31 times (if 
Joe's estimate was correct), and I was going to resubmit it as a cleanup. 
Should have warned you not to apply yet but didn't, sorry.

WBR, Sergei

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