linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] kgdboc: Change printk to the right fashion

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Date:   Tue, 14 Aug 2018 07:04:11 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <golf@...ches.com>
To:     Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>, zhe.he@...driver.com
Cc:     jason.wessel@...driver.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        jslaby@...e.com, kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] kgdboc: Change printk to the right fashion

On Tue, 2018-08-14 at 14:35 +0100, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 08:46:01PM +0800, zhe.he@...driver.com wrote:
> > From: He Zhe <zhe.he@...driver.com>
> > 
> > pr_* is preferred according to scripts/checkpatch.pl.
[]
> > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c b/drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c
[]
> > @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ static int kgdboc_option_setup(char *opt)
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	if (strlen(opt) >= MAX_CONFIG_LEN) {
> > -		printk(KERN_ERR "kgdboc: config string too long\n");
> > +		pr_err("kgdboc: config string too long\n");
> 
> Looks like you should remove the tags from pr_err and use pr_fmt(fmt) to
> put tags on the messages:
> 
> #define pr_fmt(fmt) "kgdboc: " fmt

True and it's probably better to use:

#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt