Re: [PATCH 03/18] printk: Convert pr_fmt from blank define to KBUILD_MODNAME

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2018-05-18 at 10:42 +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Thu 2018-05-10 08:45:29, Joe Perches wrote:
> > There are more than 1000 uses of #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
> > Make that the default define so these uses can be removed later via script.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> It removes a lot of duplicates. I just hope that we will not need to
> add the same amount of defines to remove/change the prefix where the
> new default would look ugly.

I expect there will be far far fewer additions,
perhaps a few dozen, than the about 1200 removals.  

> I am not completely convinced that it is worth it. But it makes some
> sense. Feel free to use:
> 
> Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> BTW: I tried the entire patchset and there are still many locations
> even in the boot log that might need an update:

Thanks.

> [    0.000000] generic: MTRR default type: write-back

generic might be removed.

> [    0.000000] libftrace: ftrace: allocating 40753 entries in 160 pages
> [    0.004008] apic: APIC: Switch to symmetric I/O mode setup

I believe the uppercase APIC: bit should be removed.

> [    0.796479] workingset: workingset: timestamp_bits=36 max_order=20 bucket_order=0

and I will submit patches for these other duplicates.

> [    1.044458] ipmi_si: ipmi_si: Unable to find any System Interface(s)
> [    1.046489] ioatdma: ioatdma: Intel(R) QuickData Technology Driver 4.00
> [    1.076080] ppdev: ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
> [    1.484645] ehci_pci: ehci-pci: EHCI PCI platform driver
> [    1.544643] parport: parport0: cannot grant exclusive access for device pps_parport
> [    1.556821] usbcore: usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
> [    1.558001] usbhid: usbhid: USB HID core driver

cheers, Joe