Re: [PATCH] amd-xgbe: remove h from printk format specifier

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2020-12-23 at 11:43 -0800, trix@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This change fixes the checkpatch warning described in this commit
> commit cbacb5ab0aa0 ("docs: printk-formats: Stop encouraging use of unnecessary %h[xudi] and %hh[xudi]")
> 
> Standard integer promotion is already done and %hx and %hhx is useless
> so do not encourage the use of %hh[xudi] or %h[xudi].

Why only xgbe-ethtool?

Perhaps your script only converts direct uses of functions
marked with __printf and not any uses of the same functions
via macros.

$ git grep -P '%[\w\d\.]*h\w' drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/
drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-dcb.c:                         "TC%u: tx_bw=%hhu, rx_bw=%hhu, tsa=%hhu\n", i,
drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-dcb.c:               netif_dbg(pdata, drv, netdev, "PRIO%u: TC=%hhu\n", i,
drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-dcb.c:                                 "unsupported TSA algorithm (%hhu)\n",
drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-dcb.c:                 "cap=%hhu, en=%#hhx, mbc=%hhu, delay=%hhu\n",
drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-dev.c:       netif_dbg(pdata, drv, pdata->netdev, "VXLAN tunnel id set to %hx\n",
drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-ethtool.c:           netdev_err(netdev, "invalid phy address %hhu\n",
drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-ethtool.c:           netdev_err(netdev, "unsupported autoneg %hhu\n",
drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-ethtool.c:                   netdev_err(netdev, "unsupported duplex %hhu\n",

> 
> Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-ethtool.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-ethtool.c
> index 61f39a0e04f9..3c18f26bf2a5 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-ethtool.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-ethtool.c
> @@ -339,14 +339,14 @@ static int xgbe_set_link_ksettings(struct net_device *netdev,
>  	speed = cmd->base.speed;
>  
> 
>  	if (cmd->base.phy_address != pdata->phy.address) {
> -		netdev_err(netdev, "invalid phy address %hhu\n",
> +		netdev_err(netdev, "invalid phy address %u\n",
>  			   cmd->base.phy_address);
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	}
>  
> 
>  	if ((cmd->base.autoneg != AUTONEG_ENABLE) &&
>  	    (cmd->base.autoneg != AUTONEG_DISABLE)) {
> -		netdev_err(netdev, "unsupported autoneg %hhu\n",
> +		netdev_err(netdev, "unsupported autoneg %u\n",
>  			   cmd->base.autoneg);
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	}
> @@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ static int xgbe_set_link_ksettings(struct net_device *netdev,
>  		}
>  
> 
>  		if (cmd->base.duplex != DUPLEX_FULL) {
> -			netdev_err(netdev, "unsupported duplex %hhu\n",
> +			netdev_err(netdev, "unsupported duplex %u\n",
>  				   cmd->base.duplex);
>  			return -EINVAL;
>  		}