At Wed, 10 Sep 2014 20:37:50 +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 04:43:03PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > At Wed, 10 Sep 2014 20:02:04 +0530, > > Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 03:57:04PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 19:21 +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > > > > as pr_* macros are more preffered over printk, so printk replaced > > > > > with corresponding pr_* macros. > > > > > > > > Are you simply running checkpatch on every file and decided to do > > > > something about it? :) > > > > > > > i am running checkpatch on the patch generated. if i am doing checkpatch > > > cleanups then that i do it only in the staging. > > > only exception : printk .. :) > > > > > > > I'll let Takashi decide whether to take this or not as I no longer care > > > > about this code, but IMHO this changes is completely pointless since you > > > > don't also clean up the code to have a common prefix with #define pr_fmt > > > > and then clean up the callers etc. > > > > > > > i mentioned in the comment that in a future patch we can have pr_fmt, > > > it was not done in this patch since the changes for this patch is > > > generated by a script and not manually. > > > if Takashi accepts this then the next patch will have pr_fmt. > > > > If you're going to work on it, please give a patch series and let me > > merge once. There is no good merit to merge a half-baked piece by > > piece. > > > > Regarding the changes you've made: so far, I've merged two such > > patches just because it's a good exercise for newbies. You've played > > it and experienced it enough. So it's time to go up to a higher > > stage, more "real" fixes. > can you please give me some hint of fixes that can be attempted by > newbies. except printk :)
You should study the code at first. There is nothing you can "fix" without understanding the code. So, pick up a driver you're interested in. You may or may not find bugs there. Or, if you see / know any bug, try to join debugging. Takashi _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev