[PATCH] drm/todo: Add s/dev_*/DRM_DEV_*/ coversion to TODO
Sean Paul
seanpaul at chromium.org
Fri Sep 8 14:32:07 UTC 2017
Now that we have the DRM_DEV_* variants, we should use them.
Signed-off-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul at chromium.org>
---
Documentation/gpu/todo.rst | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
index 22af55d06ab8..e3b622094bf4 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
@@ -177,6 +177,17 @@ following drivers still use ``struct_mutex``: ``msm``, ``omapdrm`` and
Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers
+Convert instances of dev_info/dev_err/dev_warn to their DRM_DEV_* equivalent
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+For drivers which could have multiple instances, it is necessary to
+differentiate between which is which in the logs. Since DRM_INFO/WARN/ERROR
+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.
+
+Contact: Sean Paul, Maintainer of the driver you plan to convert
+
Core refactorings
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2.14.1.581.gf28d330327-goog
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