Re: [PATCH 3/3] panel: Use pr_err(...) rather than printk(KERN_ERR...)

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Jul 10 2012 - 20:06:59 EST


On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 20:25 +0900, Toshiaki Yamane wrote:
> This change is inspired by checkpatch.

[]

Please add
#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
before any #include

and remove the "panel: " prefixes from output messages.

> diff --git a/drivers/staging/panel/panel.c b/drivers/staging/panel/panel.c
[]
> @@ -1987,7 +1987,7 @@ static struct logical_input *panel_bind_key(char *name, char *press,
>
> key = kzalloc(sizeof(struct logical_input), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!key) {
> - printk(KERN_ERR "panel: not enough memory\n");
> + pr_err("panel: not enough memory\n");

OOM messages are duplicative and unnecessary.
alloc failures get a dump_stack.

[]

> @@ -2109,8 +2109,7 @@ static void panel_attach(struct parport *port)
> return;
>
> if (pprt) {
> - printk(KERN_ERR
> - "panel_attach(): port->number=%d parport=%d, "
> + pr_err("panel_attach(): port->number=%d parport=%d, "
> "already registered !\n",

Please coalesce formats and use "%s: ...", __func__ when there
is an embedded function name. It'd also be nice to use argument
alignment to open parenthesis.

pr_err("%s: port->number=%d parport=%d, already registered\n",
port->number, parport);


etc...

cheers, Joe

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