netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/5] wireless: ti: Convert specialized logging macros to kernel style

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Date:	Fri, 15 Apr 2016 15:22:28 +0300
From:	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:	Eliad Peller <eliad@...ery.com>
Cc:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-wireless\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	"open list\:NETWORKING DRIVERS" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Guy Mishol <guym@...com>,
	Uri Mashiach <uri.mashiach@...pulab.co.il>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] wireless: ti: Convert specialized logging macros to kernel style

Eliad Peller <eliad@...ery.com> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2016-03-31 at 10:39 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>>> Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> writes:
>>> > On Wed, 2016-03-30 at 14:51 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>>> > > Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> writes:
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Using the normal kernel logging mechanisms makes this code
>>> > > > a bit more like other wireless drivers.
>>> > > Personally I don't see the point but I don't have any strong opinions. A
>>> > > bigger problem is that TI drivers are not really in active development
>>> > > and that's I'm not thrilled to take big patches like this for dormant
>>> > > drivers.
>>> > Not very dormant.
>>> >
>>> > 35 patches in the last year, most of them adding functionality.
>>> Oh, I didn't realise it had that many patches. But the driver is
>>> orphaned and doesn't have a maintainer so could I then have an ack from
>>> one of the active contributors that this ok?
>>
>> Fine by me.
>>
>> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f --git drivers/net/wireless/ti/
>>
>> Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org> (maintainer:NETWORKING DRIVERS (WIRELESS),commit_signer:27/35=77%)
>> Eliad Peller <eliad@...ery.com> (commit_signer:9/35=26%,authored:7/35=20%)
>> Guy Mishol <guym@...com> (commit_signer:6/35=17%,authored:5/35=14%)
>> Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com> (commit_signer:6/35=17%,authored:3/35=9%)
>> Uri Mashiach <uri.mashiach@...pulab.co.il> (commit_signer:4/35=11%,authored:4/35=11%)
>>
>> For those people now added to the cc list,
>> here's the original patch thread:
>>
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/7/1099
>
> I don't have a strong opinion here either.
> (I do like the trailing newline being added automatically, but that's
> hardly an issue...)

Ok, I didn't get any objections so I'm planning to this set. If someone
thinks this is a bad idea speak up now.

-- 
Kalle Valo