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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/48] Rewrite kernel messages with
	standard printk helpers
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 08:40:28 +0100
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At Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:32:53 +0800,
Raymond Yau wrote:
> 
> 2014-02-26 23:53 GMT+08:00 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > this is another long series of patches for trivial cleanups.
> > This time, they replace the printk and snd_print*() calls in ALSA PCI
> > and USB drivers with dev_err() and co.  This will give nicer and more
> > consistent outputs.
> >
> > The only drawback by these replacements is that alsa-info.sh won't be
> > able to catch the dmesg lines because it doesn't contain any longer
> > the word "ALSA", but only show the module name like "snd_intel8x0".
> >
> > I'm going to fix alsa-info.sh on git soon later, but if you guys think
> > "oh no it's disaster!", let me know.  We need to reconsider a better
> > way to put the known markers (like explicitly putting "ALSA" at the
> > beginning.)
> >
> >
> seem missing au88x0

Yes, because some driver codes are horrible to work on.
Patches are welcome.

> can the driver build as modules in kernel 3.11 (ubuntu 13.10) ?

The dev_err() and co exist since ages ago, so it shouldn't be a
problem.  These patches, however, need the previous change of
snd_card_new() to make the device pointer available in time.

No idea about Ubuntu.


Takashi