Re: [PATCH 1/3] Docs: usb: update err() to pr_err() and replace __FILE__

From: Sergey Shtylyov
Date: Fri Oct 29 2021 - 16:33:24 EST


On 10/29/21 10:39 PM, Philipp Hortmann wrote:

> update err() to pr_err() and replace __FILE__
>
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/driver-api/usb/writing_usb_driver.rst | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/usb/writing_usb_driver.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/usb/writing_usb_driver.rst
> index 2176297e5765..5c29e5bdbe88 100644
> --- a/Documentation/driver-api/usb/writing_usb_driver.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/usb/writing_usb_driver.rst
> @@ -91,8 +91,8 @@ usually in the driver's init function, as shown here::
> /* register this driver with the USB subsystem */
> result = usb_register(&skel_driver);
> if (result < 0) {
> - err("usb_register failed for the "__FILE__ "driver."
> - "Error number %d", result);
> + pr_err("usb_register failed for the %s driver. "

Don't break up the kernel message like this. The current code is a bad example --
high time to fix it. :-)

> + "Error number %d", skel_driver.name, result);
> return -1;
> }
>

MBR, Sergey