Re: [PATCH RESEND] fpga: dfl: omit unneeded casts of u64 values for dev_dbg()

[Xu Yilun]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 08:04:29PM -0400, Peter Colberg wrote:
> Omit unneeded casts of u64 values to unsigned long long for use with
> printk() format specifier %llx. Unlike user space, the kernel defines
> u64 as unsigned long long for all architectures; see commit 2a7930bd77fe
> ("Documentation/printk-formats.txt: No casts needed for u64/s64").

The change is OK. But I suggest just delete the unnecessary dev_dbg()
since now people normally don't want these "Hello, I'm here!" info.

> 
> These changes are cosmetic only; no functional changes.
> 
> Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Colberg <peter.colberg@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This is an unmodified resend of the second patch only from the series
> "fpga: dfl: clean up string formatting for sysfs_emit() and dev_dbg()".

Why only pick this patch out of the series?

[...]

> diff --git a/drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-mgr.c b/drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-mgr.c
> index ab228d8837a0..da3cb9c35de5 100644
> --- a/drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-mgr.c
> +++ b/drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-mgr.c
> @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ static int fme_mgr_write_init(struct fpga_manager *mgr,
>  	priv->pr_error = fme_mgr_pr_error_handle(fme_pr);
>  	if (priv->pr_error)
>  		dev_dbg(dev, "previous PR error detected %llx\n",
> -			(unsigned long long)priv->pr_error);
> +			priv->pr_error);

I'm not sure if this is an real problem. Maybe we could keep it.

>  
>  	dev_dbg(dev, "set PR port ID\n");
>  
> @@ -242,8 +242,7 @@ static int fme_mgr_write_complete(struct fpga_manager *mgr,
>  	dev_dbg(dev, "PR operation complete, checking status\n");
>  	priv->pr_error = fme_mgr_pr_error_handle(fme_pr);
>  	if (priv->pr_error) {
> -		dev_dbg(dev, "PR error detected %llx\n",
> -			(unsigned long long)priv->pr_error);
> +		dev_dbg(dev, "PR error detected %llx\n", priv->pr_error);

This is a real problem, is it? Change to dev_err()?

Thanks,
Yilun

>  		return -EIO;
>  	}
>  
> -- 
> 2.44.0
> 
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