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Date:   Mon, 24 Feb 2020 05:38:09 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Kaaira Gupta <kgupta@...iitr.ac.in>,
        Manish Chopra <manishc@...vell.com>,
        GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@...vell.com,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] staging: qlge: emit debug and dump at same level

On Mon, 2020-02-24 at 13:54 +0530, Kaaira Gupta wrote:
> Simplify code in ql_mpi_core_to_log() by calling print_hex_dump()
> instead of existing functions so that the debug and dump are
> emitted at the same KERN_<LEVEL>
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_dbg.c b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_dbg.c
[]
> @@ -1324,27 +1324,10 @@ void ql_mpi_core_to_log(struct work_struct *work)
>  {
>  	struct ql_adapter *qdev =
>  		container_of(work, struct ql_adapter, mpi_core_to_log.work);
> -	u32 *tmp, count;
> -	int i;
>  
> -	count = sizeof(struct ql_mpi_coredump) / sizeof(u32);
> -	tmp = (u32 *)qdev->mpi_coredump;
> -	netif_printk(qdev, drv, KERN_DEBUG, qdev->ndev,
> -		     "Core is dumping to log file!\n");

There is no real need to delete this line.

And if you really want to, it'd be better to mention
the removal in the commit message description.

As is for this change, there is no "debug" and "dump"
as the commit message description shows, just "dump".