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authorDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2017-10-30 14:15:36 +0100
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2017-10-31 11:24:15 +0100
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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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@@ -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