Re: [PATCH V2] staging: ks7010: use netdev_* instead of printk()

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 10:46:26AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-10-09 at 22:04 +0530, Sabitha George wrote:
> > Fixes checkpatch warning on printk usage in ks_hostif.c
> []
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c
> []
> > @@ -465,8 +465,7 @@ void hostif_data_indication(struct ks_wlan_private *priv)
> >  			skb->dev->last_rx = jiffies;
> >  			netif_rx(skb);
> >  		} else {
> > -			printk(KERN_WARNING
> > -			       "ks_wlan: Memory squeeze, dropping packet.\n");
> > +			netdev_warn(priv->net_dev, "ks_wlan: Memory squeeze, dropping packet.\n");
> 
> You could probably drop all the "ks_wlan: " prefixes here
> and the rx_dropped increase generally removes the need
> for a non-rate-limited warning message so these
> memory squeeze messages could be removed as well.

I agree, ks_wlan: should be removed.

thanks,

greg k-h