[PATCH] drm/TODO: Clarify DRM_DEV_* conversion
Daniel Vetter
daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch
Mon Oct 30 13:15:36 UTC 2017
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 at chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
---
Documentation/gpu/todo.rst | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
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
--
2.15.0.rc1
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