Return-path: Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:45147 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751993Ab0LAH7g (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2010 02:59:36 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <5febb0e1fba0ec2bb77f6ade8b251ba0edf4614c.1290988277.git.joe@perches.com> <20101129060732.5130.qmail@stuge.se> <4CF42C17.2070500@openwrt.org> <1291081185.16349.133.camel@Joe-Laptop> <4CF464D6.2020507@openwrt.org> <1291148375.18026.342.camel@Joe-Laptop> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:59:15 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH wireless-next] ath: Rename ath_print to ath_debug To: Joe Perches Cc: Felix Fietkau , linux-wireless , ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org, peter@stuge.se, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Joe Perches wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 03:43 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote: >>> On 2010-11-30 2:39 AM, Joe Perches wrote: >>> > I gauge my willingness to spend time on subsystems on >>> > the maintainers willingness to merge things that improve >>> > readability and correctness. >>> I'm not trying to discourage you from spending time on improving this >>> code, just doubting the usefulness of such simple function renames. >> >> Poor function naming is just that. >> It reduces readability and the uses are counter expectation. > > The name is perfect, we use it to print anything, even non-debugging stuff. If you are writing trivial patches please be ready to accept trivial NACKs for them as well. IMHO its best if the large diffstat trivial patches had more purpose than just scratch a small tiny itch. Luis