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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jyoti Singh <jssengar92@gmail.com>
Cc: arnd@arndb.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jyoti Singh <jssengar@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] char: Prefer pr_* instead of printk
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2016 09:36:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160604163640.GA6559@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1465051511-10758-1-git-send-email-jssengar92@gmail.com>

On Sat, Jun 04, 2016 at 08:15:11PM +0530, Jyoti Singh wrote:
> This patch replaces all the printk[KERN_INFO] with pr_* in the file
> "ttyprintk.c" addressing the following warning:
> 
> WARNING:Prefer [subsystem eg: netdev]_info([subsystem]dev, ...
> then dev_info(dev,... then pr_info(...  to printk(KERN_INFO ...
> Found with checkpatch

Sometimes checkpatch tells you to do things that are incorrect :)

Are you _sure_ the code works the same before and after this?  The
ttyprintk driver is a bit "special".

Did you test these changes?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-04 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-04 14:45 [PATCH] char: Prefer pr_* instead of printk Jyoti Singh
2016-06-04 16:36 ` Greg KH [this message]
     [not found]   ` <CADAjwjQq5u2LYeOQa-L5BJ40hTYcp-23PiBLLHABznVhvkHRUg@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <20160605150322.GB14267@kroah.com>
     [not found]       ` <CADAjwjSiztcEVMrZEAj34QJK+sn6E8P98edE8Y7=udXYfYWv_g@mail.gmail.com>
2016-06-06  6:14         ` jyoti singh
2016-06-06 14:30           ` Greg KH
2016-06-06 15:23   ` Joe Perches

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