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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] dt-uart: support /chosen/stdout-path
	property.
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 15:22:37 +0000
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On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 13:30 +0000, Julien Grall wrote:
> On 08/01/15 13:22, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 13:15 +0000, Julien Grall wrote:
> >> Hi Ian,
> >>
> >> On 08/01/15 11:53, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >>> +            ret = dt_property_read_string(chosen, "stdout-path", &stdout);
> >>> +            if ( ret >= 0 )
> >>> +            {
> >>> +                printk("Taking dtuart configuration from /chosen/stdout-path\n");
> >>> +                if ( strlcpy(opt_dtuart, stdout, sizeof(opt_dtuart))
> >>> +                     >= sizeof(opt_dtuart) )
> >>> +                    printk("WARNING: /chosen/stdout-path too long, truncated\n");
> >>
> >> I would add XENLOG_WARNING here and ...
> >>
> >>> +            }
> >>> +            else if ( ret != -EINVAL /* Not present */ )
> >>> +                printk("Failed to read /chosen/stdout-path (%d)\n", ret);
> >>
> >> XENLOG_ERROR here.
> > 
> > In practice these only go via the earlyprintk mechanism, since the
> > console can't be setup yet. I'm not sure it's worthwhile tagging such
> > messages.
> 
> earlyprintk is transparent for the console code. Tagging may help if we
> decide to implement other kind of console later (VGA, PCI UART...).
> 
> Anyway, I doesn't change much things here as the message is tagged as
> WARNING by default. So it will be always printing.

It turns out that none of the existing prints in this function use the
tags, and I think its of marginal use in this context so I don't think
it is necessary to go changing them all, or to only use the tags for
these two messages.

Ian.