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From: Vikram Narayanan <vikram186@gmail.com>
To: Tormod Volden <lists.tormod@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: print source of "uncorrectable error" message
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:31:20 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50F12660.6010208@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1357947835-20194-1-git-send-email-lists.tormod@gmail.com>

On 1/12/2013 5:13 AM, Tormod Volden wrote:
> From: Tormod Volden <debian.tormod@gmail.com>
>
> Add the function name to the error message.
>
> These messages are not very helpful:
>
> [183356.176682] uncorrectable error :
> [183356.180273] uncorrectable error :
> [183356.184194] uncorrectable error :
> [183356.187773] uncorrectable error :
> [183356.191280] uncorrectable error :
>
> Signed-off-by: Tormod Volden <debian.tormod@gmail.com>
> ---
>
> Not sure if above messages come from this code. I also believe there must be
> a better way, advice welcome. Maybe we need to make sure all possible callers
> print additional information if -1 is returned.
>
> But this small change should be better than nothing, meanwhile.
>
> Regards,
> Tormod
>
>
>   drivers/mtd/nand/nand_ecc.c |    2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_ecc.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_ecc.c
> index b7cfe0d..cee06e9 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_ecc.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_ecc.c
> @@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ int __nand_correct_data(unsigned char *buf,
>   	if ((bitsperbyte[b0] + bitsperbyte[b1] + bitsperbyte[b2]) == 1)
>   		return 1;	/* error in ECC data; no action needed */
>
> -	printk(KERN_ERR "uncorrectable error : ");
> +	printk(KERN_ERR "__nand_correct_data: uncorrectable error : ");

Better to use %s and __func__.
Despite adding the function name, it'd be much better to briefly convey 
what has happened.

Regards,
Vikram

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-12  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-11 23:43 [PATCH] mtd: nand: print source of "uncorrectable error" message Tormod Volden
2013-01-12  9:01 ` Vikram Narayanan [this message]
2013-01-12 10:34   ` [PATCH v2] mtd/nand: Print source of error message Tormod Volden
2013-01-17 13:56     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2013-01-17 22:58       ` Tormod Volden
2013-01-18 10:18         ` Artem Bityutskiy

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