linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] staging: ks7010: use netdev

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Date:   Sun, 09 Oct 2016 10:46:26 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Sabitha George <sabitha.george@...il.com>,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] staging: ks7010: use netdev_* instead of printk()

On Sun, 2016-10-09 at 22:04 +0530, Sabitha George wrote:
> Fixes checkpatch warning on printk usage in ks_hostif.c
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c
[]
> @@ -465,8 +465,7 @@ void hostif_data_indication(struct ks_wlan_private *priv)
>  			skb->dev->last_rx = jiffies;
>  			netif_rx(skb);
>  		} else {
> -			printk(KERN_WARNING
> -			       "ks_wlan: Memory squeeze, dropping packet.\n");
> +			netdev_warn(priv->net_dev, "ks_wlan: Memory squeeze, dropping packet.\n");

You could probably drop all the "ks_wlan: " prefixes here
and the rx_dropped increase generally removes the need
for a non-rate-limited warning message so these
memory squeeze messages could be removed as well.