Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] mfd: Introduce QTI I2C PMIC controller

From: Guru Das Srinagesh
Date: Thu Apr 30 2020 - 21:28:13 EST


On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 06:18:18PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-04-30 at 18:13 -0700, Guru Das Srinagesh wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 08:50:10AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > On Tue, 28 Apr 2020, Guru Das Srinagesh wrote:
> > > > The Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. I2C PMIC Controller is used by
> > > > multi-function PMIC devices which communicate over the I2C bus. The
> > > > controller enumerates all child nodes as platform devices, and
> > > > instantiates a regmap interface for them to communicate over the I2C
> > > > bus.
> []
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/mfd/qcom-i2c-pmic.c b/drivers/mfd/qcom-i2c-pmic.c
> []
> > > Please don't role your own debug helpers.
> > >
> > > The ones the kernel provides are suitably proficient.
> >
> > Sure. Would this be acceptable instead, with the custom string replaced by a
> > macro that the kernel provides?
> >
> > #define pr_fmt(fmt) "%s: %s: " fmt, KBUILD_MODNAME, __func__
>
> trivia:
>
> It's almost always smaller object code to use
> the KBUILD_MODNAME as a fixed string instead of
> as a printf argument.
>
> #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": %s: " fmt, __func__

Thanks, duly noted :)

Thank you.

Guru Das.