From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Perches Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 2/2] netdev: driver: ethernet: Add TI CPSW driver Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:46:02 -0800 Message-ID: <1330011962.5143.50.camel@joe2Laptop> References: <1329763023-29580-1-git-send-email-mugunthanvnm@ti.com> <1329763023-29580-3-git-send-email-mugunthanvnm@ti.com> <1329779029.8318.21.camel@joe2Laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "davem@davemloft.net" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" To: "N, Mugunthan V" , Andy Whitcroft Return-path: Received: from perches-mx.perches.com ([206.117.179.246]:54570 "EHLO labridge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751851Ab2BWPqF (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:46:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 12:47 +0000, N, Mugunthan V wrote: > Joe/David > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Joe Perches [mailto:joe@perches.com] > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 4:34 AM > [...] > > > Add > > > #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt > > > before all #includes and remove the embedded prefix > > > from all pr_ uses. > > Agreed, will make use of pr_fmt and remove embedded prefix in pr_ > > uses > Adding > #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt > in the driver gives a checkpatch error as follows > #77: FILE: drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw.c:16: > +#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt > total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 1137 lines checked > Is it ok to ignore the checkpatch error as most of the drivers use it. Yes. Andy Whitcroft has a pending checkpatch fix for this. I hope he pushes it out soon.