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From:   Kaaira Gupta <kgupta@es.iitr.ac.in>
Date:   Mon, 24 Feb 2020 22:17:21 +0530
To:     Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Manish Chopra <manishc@marvell.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] staging: qlge: emit debug and dump at same level
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On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 05:38:09AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> 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".

This patch has already been added to the tree, if I amend the commit now
using git rebase, won't it affect the upstream as the SHA-1 of the
commit and it's children will change?

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