linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2 v3] Staging: comedi: fix printk() issue in adv

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Date:	Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:15:51 +1000
From:	Ryan Mallon <rmallon@...il.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
CC:	Ravishankar <ravishankarkm32@...il.com>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, gregkh@...e.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ravishankar <ravi.shankar@...enturtles.in>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 v3] Staging: comedi: fix printk() issue in adv_pci1710.c

On 19/07/11 16:12, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 04:07:27PM +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote:
>> This still isn't correct. The initial printk (KERN_INFO above) has
>> no trailing newline. Here you are almost doing it correctly, except
>> that you are adding an extra newline. This error message will look
>> like this:
>>
>> comedi0: adv_pci1710:
>> comedi0: adv_pci1710: Allocation failed
>>
> Actually kmalloc() prints an message with a stack trace on failure as
> well so that would go in the middle, just before the first newline.
>

Thanks. Didn't know that. Is that a KConfig option or by default?

Either way, it's another good reason to get rid of all the KERN_CONT 
stuff in the driver.

~Ryan
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