From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pd0-x22d.google.com (mail-pd0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c02::22d]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DABDA1A006C for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2014 01:08:02 +1000 (EST) Received: by mail-pd0-f173.google.com with SMTP id ft15so9367663pdb.32 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 08:08:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 20:37:50 +0530 From: Sudip Mukherjee To: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: [PATCH] sound: aoa: printk replacement Message-ID: <20140910150749.GA30775@sudip-PC> References: <1410357107-29933-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> <1410357424.2761.5.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> <20140910143204.GA30695@sudip-PC> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Berg , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Jaroslav Kysela List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 04:43:03PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Wed, 10 Sep 2014 20:02:04 +0530, > Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 03:57:04PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 19:21 +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > > > as pr_* macros are more preffered over printk, so printk replaced > > > > with corresponding pr_* macros. > > > > > > Are you simply running checkpatch on every file and decided to do > > > something about it? :) > > > > > i am running checkpatch on the patch generated. if i am doing checkpatch > > cleanups then that i do it only in the staging. > > only exception : printk .. :) > > > > > I'll let Takashi decide whether to take this or not as I no longer care > > > about this code, but IMHO this changes is completely pointless since you > > > don't also clean up the code to have a common prefix with #define pr_fmt > > > and then clean up the callers etc. > > > > > i mentioned in the comment that in a future patch we can have pr_fmt, > > it was not done in this patch since the changes for this patch is > > generated by a script and not manually. > > if Takashi accepts this then the next patch will have pr_fmt. > > If you're going to work on it, please give a patch series and let me > merge once. There is no good merit to merge a half-baked piece by > piece. > > Regarding the changes you've made: so far, I've merged two such > patches just because it's a good exercise for newbies. You've played > it and experienced it enough. So it's time to go up to a higher > stage, more "real" fixes. can you please give me some hint of fixes that can be attempted by newbies. except printk :) so far i have started with fixing the sparse warnings in staging. > > For example, if you are still interested in printk stuff, try to > change the calls to dev_err() and co. Of course, this needs more > understanding of the code you'll handle, which object is passed for > which messages. > sure , i will send you this one. thanks sudip > > thanks, > > Takashi