Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] Add virtual "idle" device

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Tue Mar 03 2009 - 05:00:30 EST


On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 23:42, Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/char/idle.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,445 @@

> +#ifdef DEBUG
> +#define idle_printk(args...) printk(KERN_DEBUG "IDLEDEV: " args)
> +#else
> +#define idle_printk(args...) do {} while (0)
> +#endif

Please use the standard debug interface, i.e.

#define pr_fmt(fmt) "IDLEDEV: " fmt

and use pr_debug() everywhere, to always have printf()-style format checking.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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