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Date:	Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:52:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	joe@...ches.com
Cc:	sfr@...b.auug.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	gregkh@...e.de
Subject: Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the net tree

From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:13:42 -0700

> On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 18:18 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> It looks like there are just a hand-ful of cases, so maybe we can tweak
>> them by hand.  For example, in the sym53c8xx_2 driver bits we can replace
>> the NULL labels passed to sym_print_msg() with a real string and therefore
>> remove the "" case.
>> 
>> Joe, any better ideas?
> 
> You're right there are just a few cases where dev_info
> is uses as a preface for a hex_dump style display.
> 
> Maybe it'd be OK to simply add a trailing space to the
> preface and remove any leading spaces from the subsequent
> initial printks.
> 
> dev_info(dev, " ");

That might work.

The sym53c8xx_2 doesn't even need this, like I said, you could
just remove the NULL 'label' argument cases and then have that
bit cured.

Could you take a stab at this and the other scsi bits that
trigger this warning?

Thanks Joe!
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