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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: "Jimmy Chen (陳永達)" <jimmy.chen@moxa.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de
Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/2] misc: add real function open/read/write/ioctl/close for moxa_serial_io driver
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:30:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1303716634.1745.44.camel@Joe-Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ECB3782BB8F03341905DD923270296115F67B2@mhqms01.moxa.com>

On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 14:44 +0800, Jimmy Chen (陳永達) wrote:
> From: Jimmy Chen <jimmy.chen@moxa.com>
> 
> Add real function and GPL license.
> Check with script/checkpatch.pl

Just some trivia:
There is a mechanism used to prefix logging messages.

> diff --git a/drivers/misc/moxa_serial_io.c b/drivers/misc/moxa_serial_io.c

You could add

#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt

before any #include

> +#include <linux/module.h>
> +#include <linux/kernel.h>
[]
> +static int __init io_init_module(void)
> +{
> +	unsigned char val;
> +	printk(KERN_INFO "initializing MOXA SERIAL IO module\n");

And convert all the printks to pr_<level>

	pr_info("Initializing module\n");
> +
> +	if (misc_register(&dio_miscdev) != 0) {
> +		printk(KERN_INFO "Moxa serial io driver: Register misc fail !\n");

	pr_err("misc_register failed\n");

[]
> +	printk(KERN_INFO "Moxa V2100 serial io driver, version "
> +			MOXA_SERIAL_IO_VERSION ", " "init OK\n");

	pr_info("Initialized version %s\n", MOXA_SERIAL_IO_VERSION);

> +static void __exit io_cleanup_module(void)
> +{
> +	printk("cleaning up module\n");

	pr_info("Removed\n");



  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-25  7:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-25  6:44 [PATCH 2/2] misc: add real function open/read/write/ioctl/close for moxa_serial_io driver Jimmy Chen (陳永達)
2011-04-25  7:30 ` Joe Perches [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-04-25  2:28 [PATCH 1/2] misc: add option in menu to support MOXA V2100 serial io driver Jimmy Chen (陳永達)
2011-04-25  2:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] misc: add real function open/read/write/ioctl/close for moxa_serial_io driver Jimmy Chen (陳永達)
2011-04-25  2:47   ` Joe Perches
2011-04-25  3:01     ` Greg KH
2011-04-25  3:44       ` Jimmy Chen (陳永達)
2011-04-25 14:13         ` Greg KH
2011-04-26  9:01           ` Jimmy Chen (陳永達)
2011-04-26 13:20             ` Greg KH
2011-04-25 11:40   ` Alan Cox

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