Re: [PATCH v4] [media] pci: Add tw5864 driver

[Andrey Utkin]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 09:40:53AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> Each of these blocks will start with the dev_<level> prefix
> and the subsequent lines will not have the same prefix

Yes. I have checked how it looks before submitting, but I didn't see
this as a problem. I don't mind changing that (anyway I have found few
micro-issues with checkpatch --strict and would like to resubmit), but
would like to hear some second opinion.

> It also might be better to issue something like a single
> line dev_warn referring to the driver code and just leave
> this comment in the driver sources.
> 
> Something like:
> 
> 	dev_warn(&pci_dev->dev,
> 		"This driver has known defects in video quality\n");

Things get complicated if you consider mainstream distros and their
years-behind kernels. The simplest way to preserve correspondence
between state of driver and such notice is to contain the notice in the
compiled driver. I hope the state of affairs will change to better
someday :)