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From: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>,
	isdn4linux@listserv.isdn4linux.de
Subject: Re: Can we remove pci_find_device() yet?
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:02:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B4D8C24.6060007@imap.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100112173947.GA7784@suse.de>

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Am 2010-01-12 18:39 schrieb Greg KH:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 05:42:14PM +0100, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
[...]
>> Many of the calls to pci_find_device() have checkpatch problems
>> which of course do not go away by just substituting another
>> function name, so I would be obliged to restructure all those
>> call sites by hand for the sake of "not introducing new code
>> with checkpatch problems". BTDT.
> 
> No you would not, don't be crazy.  Modfying a single line to rename a
> function from one thing to another could never be decreed as a "don't
> add bad code".  And if someone says it is, well, you just found someone
> who doesn't know what they are doing :)

Ok. I do hope you are right, and my extrapolation from past
experience was wrong.

> Please continue with this idea, it's sane, and valid.

Alright, will do. Patch will follow later today, SCJ. Let's see
what the checkpatch police will say.

Regards,
Tilman

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-13  9:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-08  0:22 Can we remove pci_find_device() yet? Stephen Rothwell
2010-01-08  4:46 ` Greg KH
2010-01-11 19:46   ` Tilman Schmidt
2010-01-11 20:01     ` Greg KH
2010-01-12  0:21       ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-01-12  0:46         ` Greg KH
2010-01-12 16:42       ` Tilman Schmidt
2010-01-12 17:39         ` Greg KH
2010-01-13  9:02           ` Tilman Schmidt [this message]
2010-01-12 20:34       ` Krzysztof Halasa
2010-01-12 20:53         ` Ben Hutchings
2010-01-12 21:18           ` Greg KH
2010-01-13 15:09             ` Krzysztof Halasa
2010-01-13 14:23       ` [PATCH] pci: push deprecated pci_find_device() function to last user Tilman Schmidt
2010-01-14  4:33         ` David Miller
2010-01-14  4:43           ` Greg KH
2010-01-14  8:12             ` David Miller
2010-01-14 16:28               ` Jesse Barnes
2010-01-14 22:18                 ` [PATCH/REPOST] " Tilman Schmidt
2010-01-15 18:08                   ` Jesse Barnes
2010-01-16 11:17                     ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-01-18 16:24                 ` [PATCH/v2] " Tilman Schmidt
2010-01-14 10:18       ` Can we remove pci_find_device() yet? Andi Kleen
2010-01-14 11:02         ` Alan Cox
2010-01-14 11:03           ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-14 12:39             ` Tilman Schmidt
2010-01-20 15:11           ` Tilman Schmidt

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