drm/todo: Add s/dev_*/DRM_DEV_*/ coversion to TODO
authorSean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
Fri, 8 Sep 2017 14:32:07 +0000 (10:32 -0400)
committerSean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
Fri, 8 Sep 2017 16:11:05 +0000 (12:11 -0400)
Now that we have the DRM_DEV_* variants, we should use them.

Signed-off-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170908143218.9701-1-seanpaul@chromium.org
Documentation/gpu/todo.rst

index 22af55d..e3b6220 100644 (file)
@@ -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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