Re: [PATCH 6/6] staging: media: atomisp: use printk with KERN facility level

From: Fabio Aiuto
Date: Tue Apr 20 2021 - 04:35:38 EST


Hi Deepak,

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 12:46:40AM +0530, Deepak R Varma wrote:
> printk() without KERN_<LEVEL> facility is flagged by checkpatch as a
> warning. It is better to use pr_info() which comes with an
> inbuilt KERN_INFO level.
>
> Signed-off-by: Deepak R Varma <drv@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/media/atomisp/i2c/atomisp-gc0310.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/i2c/atomisp-gc0310.c b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/i2c/atomisp-gc0310.c
> index b572551f1a0d..a0f3c5c32f94 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/i2c/atomisp-gc0310.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/i2c/atomisp-gc0310.c
> @@ -1020,7 +1020,7 @@ static int gc0310_set_fmt(struct v4l2_subdev *sd,
> return -EINVAL;
> }
>
> - printk("%s: before gc0310_write_reg_array %s\n", __func__,
> + pr_info("%s: before gc0310_write_reg_array %s\n", __func__,
> gc0310_res[dev->fmt_idx].desc);

in a driver is best recommended to replace a raw printk call
with a dev_*() log. Check few lines above here to see
how it is done.


> ret = startup(sd);
> if (ret) {
> --
> 2.25.1
>
>


thank you,

fabio