linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/9] ext4: Use pr_fmt and pr

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Date:	Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:28:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:	david@...g.hm
To:	"Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
cc:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] ext4: Use pr_fmt and pr_<level>

On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, Ted Ts'o wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:44:10AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>>
>> This stuff ain't whitespace.
>>
>
> I'll have to respectfully disagree with you.  For ext4, as far as I am
> concerned, changing printk(KERN_INFO, ...) to pr_info(...) is *purely*
> a whitespace-level change.

Joe, if everything did change, what difference would it make?

just being a consistant style doesn't matter much, but if there is some 
functionality that would be possible with pr_info(...) that would not be 
possible with printk(KERN_INFO, ...), there may be more reason to change.

David Lang
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