Re: PATCH: cleanup printk and a 32/64bitism

[Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>]

On Friday 21 October 2005 06:26, Alan Cox wrote:
> Not sure if this board can exist with a 64bit CPU but if not then
> Kconfig wants fixing too.
> 
> - Fix various chaotic printks
> - Remove the exclamation marks from every printk (!!!) 
> - Fix the 64/32bit pointer cast by removing the printing in question.
> The value is always NULL on that path anyway.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
> 
> diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla-2.6.14-rc4-mm1/drivers/char/tlclk.c linux-2.6.14-rc4-mm1/drivers/char/tlclk.c
> --- linux.vanilla-2.6.14-rc4-mm1/drivers/char/tlclk.c 2005-10-20 16:12:39.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.14-rc4-mm1/drivers/char/tlclk.c 2005-10-20 17:44:53.000000000 +0100
> @@ -210,7 +210,7 @@
>   result = request_irq(telclk_interrupt, &tlclk_interrupt,
>          SA_INTERRUPT, "telco_clock", tlclk_interrupt);
>   if (result == -EBUSY) {
> -  printk(KERN_ERR "telco_clock: Interrupt can't be reserved!\n");
> +  printk(KERN_ERR "telco_clock: Interrupt can't be reserved.\n");
>    return -EBUSY;
>   }
>   inb(TLCLK_REG6); /* Clear interrupt events */
> @@ -740,7 +740,7 @@
>  
>   ret = register_chrdev(tlclk_major, "telco_clock", &tlclk_fops);
>   if (ret < 0) {
> -  printk(KERN_ERR "telco_clock: can't get major! %d\n", tlclk_major);
> +  printk(KERN_ERR "tlclk: can't get major %d.\n", tlclk_major);
>    return ret;
>   }
>   alarm_events = kzalloc( sizeof(struct tlclk_alarms), GFP_KERNEL);
> @@ -749,7 +749,7 @@
>  
>   /* Read telecom clock IRQ number (Set by BIOS) */
>   if (!request_region(TLCLK_BASE, 8, "telco_clock")) {
> -  printk(KERN_ERR "tlclk: request_region failed! 0x%X\n",
> +  printk(KERN_ERR "tlclk: request_region 0x%X failed.\n",
>     TLCLK_BASE);
>    ret = -EBUSY;
>    goto out2;
> @@ -757,7 +757,7 @@
>   telclk_interrupt = (inb(TLCLK_REG7) & 0x0f);
>  
>   if (0x0F == telclk_interrupt ) { /* not MCPBL0010 ? */
> -  printk(KERN_ERR "telclk_interrup = 0x%x non-mcpbl0010 hw\n",
> +  printk(KERN_ERR "telclk_interrup = 0x%x non-mcpbl0010 hw.\n",
>     telclk_interrupt);
>    ret = -ENXIO;
>    goto out3;
> @@ -767,7 +767,7 @@
>  
>   ret = misc_register(&tlclk_miscdev);
>   if (ret < 0) {
> -  printk(KERN_ERR " misc_register retruns %d\n", ret);
> +  printk(KERN_ERR "tlclk: misc_register returns %d.\n", ret);
>    ret = -EBUSY;
>    goto out3;
>   }
> @@ -775,8 +775,7 @@
>   tlclk_device = platform_device_register_simple("telco_clock",
>      -1, NULL, 0);
>   if (!tlclk_device) {
> -  printk(KERN_ERR " platform_device_register retruns 0x%X\n",
> -   (unsigned int) tlclk_device);
> +  printk(KERN_ERR "tlclk: platform_device_register failed.\n");
>    ret = -EBUSY;
>    goto out4;
>   }
> @@ -784,7 +783,7 @@
>   ret = sysfs_create_group(&tlclk_device->dev.kobj,
>     &tlclk_attribute_group);
>   if (ret) {
> -  printk(KERN_ERR "failed to create sysfs device attributes\n");
> +  printk(KERN_ERR "tlclk: failed to create sysfs device attributes.\n");
>    sysfs_remove_group(&tlclk_device->dev.kobj,
>     &tlclk_attribute_group);
>    goto out5;
> 

Thanks, These are all good changes.  I'm putting this into my code this AM.

This driver does need to work on x86_64 as well as i368.  Thanks again.

thanks again.
-- 
--mgross
Intel Open Source Technology Center