linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/media/IR/imon.c: Use pr

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Date:	Sun, 20 Jun 2010 13:34:26 -0400
From:	Jarod Wilson <jarod@...sonet.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	linux-media <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/media/IR/imon.c: Use pr_err instead of err

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 11:58 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> On Jun 20, 2010, at 3:20 AM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
>> Use the standard error logging mechanisms.
>> > Add #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ":%s" fmt, __func__
>> > Remove __func__ from err calls, add '\n', rename to pr_err
>> Eh. If we're going to make a change here, I'd rather it be to using
>> dev_err instead, since most of the other spew in this driver uses
>> similar.
>
> The idea is to eventually remove info/err/warn from usb.h by
> changing the code outside of drivers/usb first.
>
> There will always be some mix of printk or pr_<level> along
> with dev_<level> because struct device * is NULL or as is
> mostly used here there's no struct imon_context * available.
>
> I suggest you have a look and see which ones of these
> changes could use dev_<level> instead.

Ah, tbh, didn't look all that closely. Okay, I'll see if any of them
can actually be made into dev_err instead of pr_err, but any that
can't, sure, there's no problem w/this change.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod@...sonet.com
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