Re: Advice re LKML submittal [Was: scx200 & gpio [trivial patch]]

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On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 06:48:56AM -0600, Jim Cromie wrote:
> folks,
> 
> Ive worked up a fairly trivial patch (attached) to scx200 and scx200_gpio.
> Ive gotten the OK from the maintainer (also attached), so Im looking for
> advice on how to proceed further.  I thought about posting to 
> kernel-mentors, but one look at the size of work being reviewed there
> (plan9 fs), its not where I belong..

Why not?  That's the perfict place for this, it doesn't matter as to the
size :)

> 1. patch above comments out printks in scx200_gpio_write,
>    maybe better way is to macro-ize them so theyre DBG able.
>    (should I, and whats an acceptable Kconfig name ?)

Used the dev_dbg(), dev_info() and friends macros instead.  That's the
proper way to do this.

thanks,

greg k-h

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