Re: [PATCH 4/5] efi: Add shared printk wrapper for consistent prefixing

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2014-04-04 at 13:25 +0100, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> Add a wrapper for printk to standardize the prefix for informational and
> error messages from the EFI stub.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c
[]
> @@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ 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)
[]
> @@ -486,7 +489,7 @@ static efi_status_t efi_relocate_kernel(efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg,
>  				       &new_addr);
>  	}
>  	if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) {
> -		efi_printk(sys_table_arg, "ERROR: Failed to allocate usable memory for kernel.\n");
> +		pr_efi_err(sys_table_arg, "ERROR: Failed to allocate usable memory for kernel.\n");

Author! Author! "ERROR: ERROR:"!

One too many "ERROR:" prefixes.

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