Re: [PATCH 04/15] lirc_dev: replace printk with pr_* or dev_*

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2016-06-29 at 22:20 +0900, Andi Shyti wrote:
> This patch mutes also all the checkpatch warnings related to
> printk.
> 
> Reword all the printouts so that the string doesn't need to be
> split, which fixes the following checkpatch warning:

Adding

#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt

before any #include would allow these to be prefixed
automatically and allow the embedded prefixes to be removed.
> diff --git a/drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c b/drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c
[]
> @@ -240,59 +240,51 @@ static int lirc_allocate_driver(struct lirc_driver *d)
>  	int err;
>  
>  	if (!d) {
> -		printk(KERN_ERR "lirc_dev: lirc_register_driver: "
> -		       "driver pointer must be not NULL!\n");
> +		pr_err("lirc_dev: driver pointer must be not NULL!\n");
>  		err = -EBADRQC;
>  		goto out;
>  	}

		pr_err("driver pointer must not be NULL!\n");

And typical multiple line statement alignment is to
the open parenthesis.