From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757898Ab0EGSvK (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2010 14:51:10 -0400 Received: from mail.perches.com ([173.55.12.10]:1970 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752803Ab0EGSvI (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2010 14:51:08 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] x86/mrst: add vrtc driver which serves as a wall clock device From: Joe Perches To: Jacob Pan Cc: Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Alek Du , Arjan van de Ven , Feng Tang , LKML In-Reply-To: <1273254108-3234-8-git-send-email-jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com> References: <1273254108-3234-1-git-send-email-jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com> <1273254108-3234-8-git-send-email-jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 11:51:06 -0700 Message-ID: <1273258266.1540.63.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 10:41 -0700, Jacob Pan wrote: > + printk(KERN_INFO "vRTC: sec: %d min: %d hour: %d day: %d " > + "mon: %d year: %d\n", sec, min, hour, mday, mon, year); > + Even though many of the rtc drivers print this way, it seems a very backwards way of presenting time to me. I think "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss" is a better representation, more compact and readable. Also KERN_INFO may not be good, maybe KERN_DEBUG or pr_debug?