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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>,
	linux-input@vger.kernel.org,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] Input-gameport: Replace some printk() calls by pr_info() in joydump_connect()
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 00:31:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1474788689.2238.3.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <814f7993-de4b-05d8-845e-3f0230122061@users.sourceforge.net>

On Sun, 2016-09-25 at 09:15 +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> 1. Add a definition for the macros "MY_LOG_PREFIX" and "pr_fmt" so that
>    their information can be used for consistent message output.
> 
> 
> 2. Prefer usage of the macro "pr_info" over the interface "printk"
>    in this function.
> 
> 
> 3. Reduce number of output function calls.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> ---
> 
> 
> v2: Yesterday a software development discussion pointed weaknesses out around
>     the previous update steps "3" and "4".
>     Now I propose this update variant in the hope that my second approach
>     for this software module will work as desired and can be accepted
>     a bit easier.

No thank you.

This is not a good change as it messes with dmesg timestamps.

Simpler to read and more straightforward is multiple
individual function calls.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-25  7:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-24 13:45 [PATCH 0/4] Input-gameport: Fine-tuning for joydump_connect() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-24 13:46 ` [PATCH 1/4] Input-gameport: Use kmalloc_array() in joydump_connect() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-24 16:42   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-09-24 17:04     ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-24 13:47 ` [PATCH 2/4] Input-gameport: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-24 13:48 ` [PATCH 3/4] Input-gameport: Add the macro "pr_fmt" for module "joydump" SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-24 16:41   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-09-24 16:55     ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-24 17:03       ` Joe Perches
2016-09-24 17:45         ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-24 18:01           ` Joe Perches
2016-09-24 18:45             ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-24 13:50 ` [PATCH 4/4] Input-gameport: Replace some printk() calls by pr_info() in joydump_connect() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-24 16:13   ` Joe Perches
2016-09-24 16:32     ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-24 16:39       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-09-24 17:20         ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-24 16:47       ` [PATCH 4/4] " Joe Perches
2016-09-24 19:50         ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-24 16:41     ` [PATCH 4/4] " SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-25  7:15     ` [PATCH v2 3/3] " SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-25  7:31       ` Joe Perches [this message]
2016-09-25  7:45         ` SF Markus Elfring

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