Re: [PATCH V2] staging: ks7010: use netdev_* instead of printk()

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sun Oct 09 2016 - 13:48:04 EST


On Sun, 2016-10-09 at 22:04 +0530, Sabitha George wrote:
> Fixes checkpatch warning on printk usage in ks_hostif.c
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c
[]
> @@ -465,8 +465,7 @@ void hostif_data_indication(struct ks_wlan_private *priv)
> skb->dev->last_rx = jiffies;
> netif_rx(skb);
> } else {
> - printk(KERN_WARNING
> - "ks_wlan: Memory squeeze, dropping packet.\n");
> + netdev_warn(priv->net_dev, "ks_wlan: Memory squeeze, dropping packet.\n");

You could probably drop all the "ks_wlan: " prefixes here
and the rx_dropped increase generally removes the need
for a non-rate-limited warning message so these
memory squeeze messages could be removed as well.