Re: [PATCH 06/10] drivers/input/serio/i8042: Use pr_<level>,pr_fmt. Fix dbg and __FILE__ use

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Oct 26 2010 - 21:35:52 EST


On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 18:28 -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Oct 26, 2010, at 6:10 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I think 2 defects in 16 uses is a pretty high error rate.
> But how not adding /n is it much better than having it if
> some later change will forget to add it to the message?

Adding \n is the default kernel style.

USB uses a similar dbg macro with a relatively
high error rate.

I fixed some in this commit below awhile ago,
but these keep creeping back in, so they _are_
error prone in actual use.

commit 759f3634267a67ac90f3fa7fc06510dfd43b4e45
Author: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Feb 5 16:50:08 2010 -0800

USB: serial: Remove unnecessary \n's from dbg uses

#define dbg adds the newline, messages shouldn't.
Converted dbg("%s", "some string") to dbg("some string")

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>


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