Re: [ipw3945-devel] [PATCH 1/1] iwlwifi: fix printk newlines

From: Zhu Yi
Date: Tue Aug 12 2008 - 01:39:35 EST


On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 05:59 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> > We should give the users more control to the style I think.
>
> what kind of control do you expect? If you need two lines of debug or
> error output, call IWL_ERROR twice. This will also result in the
> KERN_ERR is set and not forgotten since that has to follow the
> newline.

I thought sometimes we might not need a new line between two IWL_ERRORs.
But your KERN_ERR garbaging the output in this case is correct. I think
when we wrote the macro, we just follow the style of dev_info() ...
dev_emerg() macros. Do you know why there is not a new line for them by
default?

Thanks,
-yi

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