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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] Introduce FW_INFO* functions and messages
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On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 08:01 -0500, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> Sorry everyone, I was out on PTO for the past few weeks.
>
>
> On 12/06/2013 07:30 AM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> > On Thu, 05 Dec, at 07:55:03AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 11:30 +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 04 Dec, at 07:22:57PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >>>> The other part I noticed about this particular patchset is that it's
> >>>> not really "firmware" as such, but specifically PC wiht ACPI that
> >>>> gets covered here. So rather than generalizing the code, another
> >>>> option would be to narrow down the scope and make it
> >>>> acpi_{warn,info,dbg} instead.
> >>>
> >>> Making this specific to ACPI runs the risk of people introducing a
> >>> multitude of new logging functions for every subsystem, e.g.
> >>> efi_{warn,info,dbg}.
> >>
> >> There are many subsystem specific logging functions:
> >
> > Surely that's further justification to not introduce any more.
>
> That's what I was thinking when I saw this discussion.

I have no problem with introducing more <subsystem>_<kern_level>
functions/macros.

It can reduce overall object size quite a lot.

see commits like: 227842d1176019512d24236f7fb894f0fadd30d1




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