Re: [PATCH 05/22] Add shared printk wrapper for consistent prefixing

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Feb 05 2014 - 12:34:25 EST


On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 17:03 +0000, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> From: Roy Franz <roy.franz@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Add a wrapper for printk to standardize the prefix for informational and
> error messages from the EFI stub.

trivia:

> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c
[]
> @@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ static void efi_printk(efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg, char *str)
> }
> }
>
> +#define pr_efi(sys_table, msg) efi_printk(sys_table, "EFI stub: "msg)
> +#define pr_efi_err(sys_table, msg) efi_printk(sys_table, "EFI stub: ERROR: "msg)

Perhaps it'd be better to use a space after the second "

Also, maybe pr_efi should be pr_efi_info.
That would quiet any checkpatch noise around long msg uses.



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