Re: [PATCH] drivers/hwmon: Use pr_fmt and pr_<level>

[Henrik Rydberg]

On 10/20/2010 06:07 AM, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 20:53 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:34:18PM -0400, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 20:29 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>>> There are several lines longer than 80 characters.
>>>> Does this rule no longer apply ?
>>> 80 columns isn't checked for printk format strings.
>> Interesting.
>>> A kernel general preference may be to keep formats as
>>> a single string without line breaks so that grep works
>>> better.
>>>> Oddly enough, there are only four checkpatch warnings about long lines,
>>>> even though there are many more.
>>> The version I use doesn't show any warnings.
>> checkpatch.pl from both v2.6.36-rc7 and v2.6.36-rc6 do report warnings.
>> Looks like those versions flag long lines for pr_warn. Is your version
>> older or newer ?
> 
> Newer.  It adds pr_warn to the exempted list, not just pr_warning.
> 
>> Anyway, would it be possible to split the patch into one patch per file ?
> 
> Oh sure.  It's trivial to do that.
> 
>> I don't know how Jean thinks about it, but in my opinion it would be cleaner,
>> permit revert on a single patch/file instead of having to revert the entire series,
>> it would simplify review, and it would make it much easier to cherry-pick 
>> pieces into other releases if needed.
> 
> Jean, do you have a preference?
> I'll resubmit if you want it separated.


Yes please, that would be nice.

Thanks,
Henrik
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