linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] eeepc-laptop.c: use pr_fmt and pr

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Message-ID: <71cd59b00906050901p71c7483fja5b3c74744f93384@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 5 Jun 2009 18:01:16 +0200
From:	Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@...il.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@...fmail.co.uk>,
	acpi4asus-user@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>,
	Darren Salt <linux@...mustbejoking.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eeepc-laptop.c: use pr_fmt and pr_<level>

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Joe Perches<joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 13:57 +0200, Corentin Chary wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Joe Perches<joe@...ches.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 11:54 +0100, Alan Jenkins wrote:
>> >> Is EEEPC_HOTK_FILE used anywhere else?  It would be clearer if you were
>> >> able to just use "eeepc: " or whatever and remove the definition of
>> >> EEEPC_HOTK_FILE.
>> > It is used elsewhere and perhaps it'd be better to use KBUILD_MODNAME.
>> I think we can't use KBUILD_MODNAME because "eeepc" is used for
>> platform_device, backlight and input device. Using "eeepc-laptop"
>> would break compatibility.
>
> What compatibility would it break?
> Logging messages are not guaranteed to be stable across versions.

for platform_device backlight and input device it would change the
"/sys" paths (eg: /sys/class/backlight/eeepc)
Thanks for the patch, will be applied soon =)

-- 
Corentin Chary
http://xf.iksaif.net - http://uffs.org
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