linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/22] Add shared printk wrapper for consistent prefixing

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Date:	Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:34:13 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@...aro.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, patches@...aro.org,
	Roy Franz <roy.franz@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/22] Add shared printk wrapper for consistent prefixing

On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 17:03 +0000, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> From: Roy Franz <roy.franz@...aro.org>
> 
> Add a wrapper for printk to standardize the prefix for informational and
> error messages from the EFI stub.

trivia:

> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c
[]
> @@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ static void efi_printk(efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg, char *str)
>  	}
>  }
>  
> +#define pr_efi(sys_table, msg)     efi_printk(sys_table, "EFI stub: "msg)
> +#define pr_efi_err(sys_table, msg) efi_printk(sys_table, "EFI stub: ERROR: "msg)

Perhaps it'd be better to use a space after the second "

Also, maybe pr_efi should be pr_efi_info.
That would quiet any checkpatch noise around long msg uses.



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