Re: [PATCH] scsi: libsas: Remove pcidev reference

[John Garry]

On 12/11/2018 17:49, John Garry wrote:
> On 12/11/2018 17:32, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Tue, 2018-11-13 at 01:28 +0800, John Garry wrote:
> > > Not all host drivers are PCI drivers - like hisi_sas, which supports a
> > > platform driver - so remove reference to "pcidev".
> > >
> > > The debug level is also downgraded to KERN_ERR for the same message.
> > []
> > > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_discover.c
> > > b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_discover.c
> > []
> > > @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ int sas_notify_lldd_dev_found(struct
> > > domain_device *dev)
> > >
> > >      res = i->dft->lldd_dev_found(dev);
> > >      if (res) {
> > > -        printk("sas: driver on pcidev %s cannot handle "
> > > +        pr_err("sas: driver on host %s cannot handle "
> > >                 "device %llx, error:%d\n",
> >
> > As a printk without a KERN_<LEVEL> is printed at whatever
> > CONFIG_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT is set to (default: 4 and
> > rarely unchanged), this is effectively upgraded from a
> > KERN_WARNING to KERN_ERR.
>
> ah, I thought that it was printed always.
>
> So maybe I'll just leave as-is.

I forgot to mention that checkpatch complains about using printk() - 
that's why I changed it.

Thanks,
John

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