Re: [RFC] Fix device not ready printk

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 09:08:46AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> The main thing I don't like is that we've spent a lot of time moving
> sense prints into a library so that if someone gullible^Wsensible enough
> to want to do a reporting infrastructure comes along, we have all the
> entry points nicely laid out, this is a retrograde step on that because
> it reintroduces the open coding.

Your patch is certainly an improvement from that point of view; it
consolidates two calls (which would have to be tied together by said
infrastructure) into one.

> How about something like the attached.  It does exactly what you want
> but retains the tap into the constants file for logging?

> +/*
> + * Print normalized SCSI sense header with device information and a prefix.
> + */
> +void
> +scsi_cmd_print_sense_hdr(struct scsi_cmnd *scmd, const char *name,
> +			  struct scsi_sense_hdr *sshdr)
> +{
> +	scmd_printk(KERN_INFO, scmd, "%s: ", name);
> +	scsi_show_sense_hdr(sshdr);
> +	scmd_printk(KERN_INFO, scmd, "%s: ", name);
> +	scsi_show_extd_sense(sshdr->asc, sshdr->ascq);
> +}

I think 'name' is wrong.  It's not a name, it's a description.  How
about s/name/desc/g ?

With that change, Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>

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