Re: [PATCH] amd-xgbe: remove h from printk format specifier

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Dec 23 2020 - 15:54:49 EST


On Wed, 2020-12-23 at 12:33 -0800, Tom Rix wrote:
> On 12/23/20 12:14 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Wed, 2020-12-23 at 11:43 -0800, trix@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > From: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > This change fixes the checkpatch warning described in this commit
> > > commit cbacb5ab0aa0 ("docs: printk-formats: Stop encouraging use of unnecessary %h[xudi] and %hh[xudi]")
> > >
> > > Standard integer promotion is already done and %hx and %hhx is useless
> > > so do not encourage the use of %hh[xudi] or %h[xudi].
> > Why only xgbe-ethtool?
> >
> > Perhaps your script only converts direct uses of functions
> > marked with __printf and not any uses of the same functions
> > via macros.
>
> The fixer may have issues.

Perhaps until the fixer is fixed, it'd be more
complete coverage to use checkpatch like:

$ git ls-files <path> | \
xargs ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f --fix-inplace --types=unnecessary_modifier

e.g.:

$ git ls-files drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe | \
xargs ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f --fix-inplace --types=unnecessary_modifier

$ git diff -U0 drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-dcb.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-dcb.c
index 895d35639129..dcd2a181d43a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-dcb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-dcb.c
@@ -155 +155 @@ static int xgbe_dcb_ieee_setets(struct net_device *netdev,
- "TC%u: tx_bw=%hhu, rx_bw=%hhu, tsa=%hhu\n", i,
+ "TC%u: tx_bw=%u, rx_bw=%u, tsa=%u\n", i,
@@ -158 +158 @@ static int xgbe_dcb_ieee_setets(struct net_device *netdev,
- netif_dbg(pdata, drv, netdev, "PRIO%u: TC=%hhu\n", i,
+ netif_dbg(pdata, drv, netdev, "PRIO%u: TC=%u\n", i,
@@ -233 +233 @@ static int xgbe_dcb_ieee_setpfc(struct net_device *netdev,
- "cap=%hhu, en=%#hhx, mbc=%hhu, delay=%hhu\n",
+ "cap=%u, en=%#x, mbc=%u, delay=%u\n",
@@ -267 +267 @@ static u8 xgbe_dcb_setdcbx(struct net_device *netdev, u8 dcbx)
- netif_dbg(pdata, drv, netdev, "DCBX=%#hhx\n", dcbx);
+ netif_dbg(pdata, drv, netdev, "DCBX=%#x\n", dcbx);
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-dev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-dev.c
index d5fd49dd25f3..ff0cd94bb91a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-dev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-dev.c
@@ -488 +488 @@ static void xgbe_set_vxlan_id(struct xgbe_prv_data *pdata)
- netif_dbg(pdata, drv, pdata->netdev, "VXLAN tunnel id set to %hx\n",
+ netif_dbg(pdata, drv, pdata->netdev, "VXLAN tunnel id set to %x\n",
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-drv.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-drv.c
index 2709a2db5657..0ae16bc87833 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-drv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-drv.c
@@ -2781 +2781 @@ void xgbe_print_pkt(struct net_device *netdev, struct sk_buff *skb, bool tx_rx)
- netdev_dbg(netdev, "Protocol: %#06hx\n", ntohs(eth->h_proto));
+ netdev_dbg(netdev, "Protocol: %#06x\n", ntohs(eth->h_proto));
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-ethtool.c
index 61f39a0e04f9..3c18f26bf2a5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-ethtool.c
@@ -342 +342 @@ static int xgbe_set_link_ksettings(struct net_device *netdev,
- netdev_err(netdev, "invalid phy address %hhu\n",
+ netdev_err(netdev, "invalid phy address %u\n",
@@ -349 +349 @@ static int xgbe_set_link_ksettings(struct net_device *netdev,
- netdev_err(netdev, "unsupported autoneg %hhu\n",
+ netdev_err(netdev, "unsupported autoneg %u\n",
@@ -361 +361 @@ static int xgbe_set_link_ksettings(struct net_device *netdev,
- netdev_err(netdev, "unsupported duplex %hhu\n",
+ netdev_err(netdev, "unsupported duplex %u\n",