Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752777AbYJ0JMW (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:12:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751740AbYJ0JMN (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:12:13 -0400 Received: from mtagate7.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.156]:55798 "EHLO mtagate7.de.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750965AbYJ0JMM (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:12:12 -0400 Subject: Re: [GIT PULL/RESEND] kernel message catalog patches From: Martin Schwidefsky Reply-To: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Heiko Carstens , Andrew Morton , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <1224168620.9617.14.camel@localhost> <1224230354.4631.1.camel@localhost> <20081021092148.GB4980@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20081023210446.GA12003@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <1225049195.14057.72.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: IBM Corporation Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:01:28 +0100 Message-Id: <1225101688.15777.6.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1232 Lines: 30 On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 12:12 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, 26 Oct 2008, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > > > But if it's in-kernel, other people are then going to complain about them > > > not being maintained. And quite frankly, I'm neither willing nor > > > interested in hearing those complaints or making them more "valid". > > > > The usual answer to complaints of this sort is "send a patch", isn't it? > > Yes. And why don't you do all that, and not involve me at all, and keep > all of this entirely out of the kernel? Ok, understood. Not that the reaction surprises me, seems like nobody likes documentation (including me). What I will do is to replace the kmsg_xxx macros with the pr_xxx macros in the device drivers patches and request the pull as a cleanup for 2.6.29. The out-of-tree kmsg patches will then play tricks with pr_xxx analog to dev_xxx. That way the patch should be minimal. -- blue skies, Martin. "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/