linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] floppy: Add floppy prefix to pr

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Date:   Thu, 12 Oct 2017 15:34:44 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:     Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@...il.com>
cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] floppy: Add floppy prefix to pr_info

On Fri, 28 Jul 2017, Corentin Labbe wrote:

> When booting a qemu virtual machine I got in dmesg the following message
> alone: "work still pending".
> Without prefix, it is hard to know which subsystem got work pending.
> 
> This patch add a "floppy:" prefix to this message.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/block/floppy.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/floppy.c b/drivers/block/floppy.c
> index 9c00f29e40c1..61eb80c8894b 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/floppy.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/floppy.c
> @@ -4872,7 +4872,7 @@ static void floppy_release_irq_and_dma(void)
>  	if (delayed_work_pending(&fd_timer))
>  		pr_info("auxiliary floppy timer still active\n");
>  	if (work_pending(&floppy_work))
> -		pr_info("work still pending\n");
> +		pr_info("floppy: work still pending\n");

I think it'd actually be much better to fix this globally for all such 
instances in that file, and define pr_fmt proper.
Could you please do that instead?

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs