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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Nick Østergaard" <oe.nick@gmail.com>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: wlan-ng: prism2usb.c: fix printk(KERN_ERR... to pr_err(...
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:17:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130325191732.GA22609@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1364238148-22329-1-git-send-email-oe.nick@gmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 08:02:28PM +0100, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> Fixed checkpatch.pl warning, changing fix printk(KERN_ERR... to
> pr_err(...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2usb.c | 12 +++++-------
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2usb.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2usb.c
> index b1aed1f..0f2706a 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2usb.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2usb.c
> @@ -113,14 +113,14 @@ static int prism2sta_probe_usb(struct usb_interface *interface,
>  	dev = interface_to_usbdev(interface);
>  	wlandev = create_wlan();
>  	if (wlandev == NULL) {
> -		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Memory allocation failure.\n", dev_info);
> +		pr_err("%s: Memory allocation failure.\n", dev_info);

Please use dev_err() instead, as you do have a valid struct device in
which to use.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-25 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-25 19:02 [PATCH] staging: wlan-ng: prism2usb.c: fix printk(KERN_ERR... to pr_err( Nick Østergaard
2013-03-25 19:17 ` Greg KH [this message]
2013-03-26 13:17   ` [PATCH] staging: wlan-ng: prism2usb.c: fix printk(KERN_ERR... to dev_err(dev, Nick Østergaard

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