[Outreachy kernel] Re: [PATCH v2] drm/tegra: Replace dev_* with DRM_DEV_*

[Sean Paul]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 3:38 AM, Thierry Reding
<thierry.reding at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:13:57PM +0530, Harsha Sharma wrote:
>> Replace all occurences of dev_info/err/dbg with DRM_DEV_INFO/
>> ERROR/DEBUG as we have DRM_DEV_* variants of drm print macros
>> Done using following coccinelle semantic patch
>>
>> @r@
>> @@
>>
>> (
>> -dev_info
>> +DRM_DEV_INFO
>> |
>> -dev_err
>> +DRM_DEV_ERROR
>> |
>> -dev_dbg
>> +DRM_DEV_DEBUG
>> )
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Harsha Sharma <harshasharmaiitr at gmail.com>
>> ---
>> Changes in v2:
>>  -Break line over 80 characters
>>  -Changes in comments not required
>
> Please don't do this. Most of the functions that you're trying to
> replace here are not DRM_DEV_*() for a very specific reason: none of
> them have anything to do with DRM/KMS in particular. This is important,
> in my opinion, because these messages are very device-specific and the
> additional information added by the DRM format string aren't useful in
> the context.

Hey Thierry,
It's likely not useful to a tegra expert such as yourself. However,
when I'm switching between platforms or providing log-parsing
instructions, it's very useful to say "grep for drm". Without the
common drm prefix, the reader needs to know they're looking for
tegra-sor, tegra-dc, etc as well.

Not a big deal, I just wanted to provide color for why someone might want this.

>
> Perhaps the only ones I consider to be good candidates for this
> conversion are the ones in drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/fb.c because they deal
> with the DRM fbdev setup and hence are not device specific. And even in
> those cases I'm not sure we gain very much by this conversion,
> especially since most of the replacements now end up having to split up
> argument lists.
>
> Sorry if this isn't documented anywhere. I also suspect other driver
> maintainers will be less picky about this sort of thing, so you might
> have more luck there.

I think the TODO entry states that contributors should check with the
driver maintainers before taking on this work, so it is documented :)

Sean


>
> Thierry
>
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