From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755146Ab1JWIUP (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Oct 2011 04:20:15 -0400 Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:53415 "EHLO out5.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754978Ab1JWIUK (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Oct 2011 04:20:10 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: Za+li9w0gwKP78WRUi2v+zI5LYZ+ouZ1gMs5anmFfcJ0 1319358009 Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 10:18:11 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Ravishankar Karkala Mallikarjunayya Cc: gregkh@suse.de, wfp5p@virginia.edu, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/24] Staging: comedi: fix printk issue in das6402.c Message-ID: <20111023081811.GA13409@kroah.com> References: <1319091550-2558-1-git-send-email-ravishankar.km@greenturtles.in> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1319091550-2558-1-git-send-email-ravishankar.km@greenturtles.in> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:48:47AM +0530, Ravishankar Karkala Mallikarjunayya wrote: > This is a patch to the das6402.c file that fixes up a printk warning > found by the checkpatch.pl tool. > Added #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt Why is this needed? dev_printk() doesn't use it, right? So it shouldn't be needed here, or am I missing something? greg k-h