RE: [PATCH 1/3] intel_pstate: Use pr_fmt

From: Doug Smythies
Date: Wed Apr 06 2016 - 10:51:20 EST


On 2016.04.05 02:44 Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-04-05 at 13:28 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>> Prefix the output using the more common kernel style.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c | 18 ++++++++++--------
>> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

...[cut, example left]...

> - pr_warn("intel_pstate: Turbo disabled by BIOS or
> unavailable on processor\n");
> + pr_warn("Turbo disabled by BIOS or unavailable on
> processor\n");

I do not understand.
The common and unique string "intel_pstate" was added on purpose
so as to provide a way to easily extract the related message from
an otherwise huge log file.

Reference:
commit f16255eb930173f386db0ce78ed41401aa8a94a6