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Re: staging: ks7010: Replace three printk() calls by pr_err()

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On Sat, 2016-08-13 at 21:30 +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > 
> > I think pr_ is OK if reworking the code
> > to support dev_ is not easy.
> Thanks for this explanation. - It sounds more constructive than the previous short
> feedback "Not correct".

<frustration>
How do you need your food prepared?
Do others need to cut it for you to bite sized pieces?
</frustration>

You might have noticed I also wrote in the same reply:

"All of these pr_fmt uses are redundant as pr_err already does pr_fmt"

> > > Would you accept that another update will be appended to the discussed patch series?
> > No.  Patches should not knowingly introduce defects
> > that are corrected in follow-on patches.
> This view is fine in principle.

It is not just principle.
It is a fundamental for kernel patch submission.

> I am just curious on the preferred sequence to fix the affected implementation details.
> 
> 1. I imagine that my questionable update suggestion "[PATCH v2 08/10] staging: ks7010:
>    Replace three printk() calls by pr_err()" can be skipped and the remaining logging
>    calls will be improved somehow a bit later.
> 
> Or:
> 
> 2. Do you want a resend of this whole patch series?

I am not an upstream path.
Greg KH generally serves that function here.
My suggestion would be to resend the entire patchset as V(n+1).
> It might be that I can occasionally become picky to check if other contributors
> insist on the usage of a specific error message.

You can be prone to understatement.

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[PATCH v2 00/10] staging: ks7010: Fine-tuning for a SDIO card driver SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2016-08-11 07:20 +0200
  [PATCH v2 02/10] staging: ks7010: Delete unnecessary assignments for  buffer variables SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2016-08-11 07:30 +0200
  [PATCH v2 01/10] staging: ks7010: Delete unnecessary checks before  the function call "kfree" SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2016-08-11 07:30 +0200
  [PATCH v2 04/10] staging: ks7010: Rename jump labels SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2016-08-11 07:40 +0200
  [PATCH v2 03/10] staging: ks7010: Return directly after a failed  kmalloc() SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2016-08-11 07:40 +0200
  [PATCH v2 05/10] staging: ks7010: Delete unnecessary uses of the  variable "retval" SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2016-08-11 07:40 +0200
  [PATCH v2 06/10] staging: ks7010: Delete unnecessary braces SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2016-08-11 07:50 +0200
  [PATCH v2 07/10] staging: ks7010: Add the macro "pr_fmt" SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2016-08-11 07:50 +0200
  [PATCH v2 08/10] staging: ks7010: Replace three printk() calls by  pr_err() SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2016-08-11 07:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 08/10] staging: ks7010: Replace three printk() calls  by pr_err() Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-08-12 21:50 +0200
      Re: staging: ks7010: Replace three printk() calls by pr_err() SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2016-08-13 13:20 +0200
        Re: staging: ks7010: Replace three printk() calls by pr_err() Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-08-13 19:40 +0200
          Re: staging: ks7010: Replace three printk() calls by pr_err() Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-08-14 11:00 +0200
            Re: staging: ks7010: Replace three printk() calls by pr_err() SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2016-08-14 12:10 +0200
              Re: staging: ks7010: Replace three printk() calls by pr_err() SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2016-08-14 13:10 +0200
          Re: staging: ks7010: Replace three printk() calls by pr_err() SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2016-08-14 11:30 +0200
  [PATCH v2 09/10] staging: ks7010: Delete a variable in  write_to_device() SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2016-08-11 08:00 +0200
  [PATCH v2 10/10] staging: ks7010: Delete three unnecessary variable  initialisations SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2016-08-11 08:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] staging: ks7010: Fine-tuning for a SDIO card  driver SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2016-08-14 12:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] staging: ks7010: Fine-tuning for a SDIO card  driver Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> - 2016-08-14 14:10 +0200

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