From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Bruce Humphrey <brucehum@gmail.com>,
abbotti@mev.co.uk, fmhess@users.sourceforge.net,
hsweeten@visionengravers.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: comedi: drivers: fl512: change printk(KERN_INFO ... for the prefered pr_info(...
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:44:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120911034457.GA3317@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1347334811.2073.2.camel@joe2Laptop>
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 08:40:11PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 19:52 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 04:50:15AM +0200, Bruce Humphrey wrote:
> > > Change 5 instances of printk(KERN_INFO, KERN_WARN and KERN_ERROR for the prefered pr_info, pr_warn and pr_error
> []
> > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/fl512.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/fl512.c
> []
> > > @@ -118,9 +118,9 @@ static int fl512_attach(struct comedi_device *dev, struct comedi_devconfig *it)
> []
> > > - printk(KERN_INFO "comedi:%d fl512: 0x%04lx", dev->minor, iobase);
> > > + pr_info("comedi:%d fl512: 0x%04lx", dev->minor, iobase);
> >
> > Why can't you use dev_info() here, and in other places? You should use
> > the dev_* functions instead of pr_* wherever possible.
>
> Checkpatch instigates these conversions.
I know.
> Perhaps something like:
That looks like a good start, until someone tries to use netdev_* in a
random non-network driver :)
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-11 3:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-11 2:50 [PATCH] Staging: comedi: drivers: fl512: change printk(KERN_INFO ... for the prefered pr_info( Bruce Humphrey
2012-09-11 2:52 ` Greg KH
2012-09-11 3:40 ` Joe Perches
2012-09-11 3:44 ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-09-11 3:48 ` Joe Perches
2012-09-11 11:02 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-09-11 15:19 ` [PATCH] checkpatch: Update suggested printk conversions Joe Perches
2012-09-11 10:59 ` [PATCH] Staging: comedi: drivers: fl512: change printk(KERN_INFO ... for the prefered pr_info( Dan Carpenter
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