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From: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Introduce FW_INFO* functions and messages
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 11:30:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131205113016.GB3823@console-pimps.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201312041922.59181.arnd@arndb.de>

On Wed, 04 Dec, at 07:22:57PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The other part I noticed about this particular patchset is that it's
> not really "firmware" as such, but specifically PC wiht ACPI that
> gets covered here. So rather than generalizing the code, another
> option would be to narrow down the scope and make it
> acpi_{warn,info,dbg} instead.

Making this specific to ACPI runs the risk of people introducing a
multitude of new logging functions for every subsystem, e.g.
efi_{warn,info,dbg}.

FWIW, I'd be interested in using something like this patch series to
properly log EFI implementation bugs. The logging for EFI is currently
done fairly haphazardly.

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center

  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-05 11:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-02 15:19 [PATCH 0/3] Add Firmware Info, Warn, and Bug messages Prarit Bhargava
2013-12-02 15:19 ` [PATCH 1/3] Introduce FW_INFO* functions and messages Prarit Bhargava
2013-12-03 21:21   ` Andrew Morton
2013-12-04 11:51     ` Prarit Bhargava
2013-12-04 17:20       ` Joe Perches
2013-12-04 18:22     ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-12-05 11:30       ` Matt Fleming [this message]
2013-12-05 15:55         ` Joe Perches
2013-12-06 12:30           ` Matt Fleming
2013-12-16 13:01             ` Prarit Bhargava
2013-12-16 16:31               ` Joe Perches
2013-12-02 15:19 ` [PATCH 2/3] Introduce FW_WARN* " Prarit Bhargava
2013-12-02 15:19 ` [PATCH 3/3] Introduce FW_BUG* " Prarit Bhargava
2013-12-02 17:34 ` [PATCH 0/3] Add Firmware Info, Warn, and Bug messages Joe Perches

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