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| author | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2017-10-30 14:15:36 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2017-10-31 11:24:15 +0100 |
| commit | 9f446781616ccc317ba081d0f367f37ee94ed42f (patch) | |
| tree | 81329f99f0948a4630160753d97082c5ee26e309 /Documentation/gpu | |
| parent | 1de86387bc06db2259a0ff97145d5642f8d00fa8 (diff) | |
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drm/TODO: Clarify DRM_DEV_* conversion
Not everyone agrees this is the best thing, so make it really clear
that maintainers need to be asked first, then the conversion. We've
had a few newbies that did this the other way round, got their patches
rejected, which isn't the best newbie experience.
Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171030131536.11654-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst index 96f8ec7dbe4e..e9840d693a86 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst @@ -179,6 +179,10 @@ don't do this, drivers used dev_info/warn/err to make this differentiation. We now have DRM_DEV_* variants of the drm print macros, so we can start to convert those drivers back to using drm-formwatted specific log messages. +Before you start this conversion please contact the relevant maintainers to make +sure your work will be merged - not everyone agrees that the DRM dmesg macros +are better. + Contact: Sean Paul, Maintainer of the driver you plan to convert Core refactorings |