Re: [PATCH v4 17/20] iommu/tegra: gart: Prepend error/debug messages with "GART:"

Dmitry Osipenko
2018-09-24T18:09:43Z

On 9/24/18 1:57 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 03:41:50AM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>> GART became a part of Memory Controller, hence now the drivers device
>> is Memory Controller and not GART. As a result all printed messages are
>> prepended with the "tegra-mc 7000f000.memory-controller:", so let's
>> prepend GART's messages with "GART:" in order to differentiate them
>> from the MC.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/iommu/tegra-gart.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++------------------
>> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>
> There's a macro called dev_fmt (similar to pr_fmt) to do this for dev_*
> printers. Also I think this would be more readable if the prefix was
> "gart: " rather than "GART: ". At least from my personal experience I
> get easily distracted by all-caps words in logs, because they usually
> indicate something that requires immediate attention. I think it's
> better to leave that up to higher level mechanisms, such as the color
> keying of messages based on level by tools like dmesg.

The dev_fmt is a new thing, thank you for pointing at it. I'll try to
switch to dev_fmt and lower the text case.