linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/8] x86/mrst: add vrtc driver which serves as a wall clock device

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Message-ID: <1273258266.1540.63.camel@Joe-Laptop.home>
Date:	Fri, 07 May 2010 11:51:06 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Alek Du <alek.du@...el.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] x86/mrst: add vrtc driver which serves as a wall
 clock device

On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 10:41 -0700, Jacob Pan wrote: 
> +	printk(KERN_INFO "vRTC: sec: %d min: %d hour: %d day: %d "
> +	"mon: %d year: %d\n", sec, min, hour, mday, mon, year);
> +

Even though many of the rtc drivers print this way, it seems
a very backwards way of presenting time to me.

I think "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss" is a better representation, more
compact and readable.

Also KERN_INFO may not be good, maybe KERN_DEBUG or pr_debug?

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