[PATCH v4] staging: qlge: emit debug and dump at same level

Joe Perches joe at perches.com
Mon Feb 24 16:54:43 UTC 2020


On Mon, 2020-02-24 at 22:17 +0530, Kaaira Gupta wrote:
> 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,

What tree is that?
It's not in -next as of right now.

>  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?

You are sending patches not pull requests.

If it's really in an actual tree that people
care about, send another patch putting the
netif_printk back.




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