Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] net-PPP: Replacement of a printk() call by pr_warn() in mppe_rekey()

From: Joe Perches
Date: Thu Dec 04 2014 - 17:23:37 EST


On Thu, 2014-12-04 at 23:10 +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> The mppe_rekey() function contained a few update candidates.
> * Curly brackets were still used around a single function call "printk".
> * Unwanted space characters
>
> Let us improve these implementation details according to the current Linux
> coding style convention.

trivia:

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_mppe.c b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_mppe.c
[]
> @@ -172,9 +172,8 @@ static void mppe_rekey(struct ppp_mppe_state * state, int initial_key)
> setup_sg(sg_in, state->sha1_digest, state->keylen);
> setup_sg(sg_out, state->session_key, state->keylen);
> if (crypto_blkcipher_encrypt(&desc, sg_out, sg_in,
> - state->keylen) != 0) {
> - printk(KERN_WARNING "mppe_rekey: cipher_encrypt failed\n");
> - }
> + state->keylen) != 0)
> + pr_warn("mppe_rekey: cipher_encrypt failed\n");

It's generally nicer to replace embedded function names
with "%s: ", __func__

pr_warn("%s: cipher_encrypt failed\n", __func__);


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