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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Stéphane Pajot" <pajot.stephane@gmail.com>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, fmhess@users.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: comedi: fix trailing whitespace and quoted string split across lines in ni_labpc.c
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:00:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120424200058.GA14071@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120424192709.GA4717@stef-pc>

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 09:27:09PM +0200, Stéphane Pajot wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:46:42AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 06:50:10PM +0200, Stéphane Pajot wrote:
> > > @@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ static int labpc_attach(struct comedi_device *dev, struct comedi_devconfig *it)
> > >  		irq = it->options[1];
> > >  		dma_chan = it->options[2];
> > >  #else
> > > -		printk(KERN_ERR " this driver has not been built with ISA DMA "
> > > +		printk(KERN_ERR " this driver has not been built with ISA DMA\n"
> > >  								"support.\n");
> > 
> > What?  Why did you do this?  Do you understand what you just did to the
> > message printed out?
> 
> ... It was just to patch this "quoted string split across lines
> warning", i saw this solution on the web. Now i think i understand that
> i cannot modify AT ALL a printk(KERN_ERR* even if it's just with a \n ?

Think about what is actually happening here.  You do know C, right?
What is the output of the line before you made the change, and now
after?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-24 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1335286210-3150-1-git-send-email-pajot.stephane@gmail.com>
2012-04-24 18:46 ` [PATCH] Staging: comedi: fix trailing whitespace and quoted string split across lines in ni_labpc.c Greg KH
2012-04-24 19:27   ` Stéphane Pajot
2012-04-24 20:00     ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-04-24 20:03     ` Dan Carpenter

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