linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/hwmon: Use pr_fmt and pr

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Message-ID: <1287545658.10409.606.camel@Joe-Laptop>
Date:	Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:34:18 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@...csson.com>
Cc:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@....nl>,
	Alistair John Strachan <alistair@...zero.co.uk>,
	Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@...omail.se>,
	"Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@...htlink.com>,
	Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@...il.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	Juerg Haefliger <juergh@...il.com>,
	Eric Piel <eric.piel@...mplin-utc.net>,
	Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@...il.com>,
	Roger Lucas <vt8231@...denengine.co.uk>,
	"lm-sensors@...sensors.org" <lm-sensors@...sensors.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/hwmon: Use pr_fmt and pr_<level>

On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 20:29 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 07:13:40PM -0400, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Convert printks to pr_<level>
> > Coalesce long formats
> > Removed prefixes from formats
> > Added #define pr_fmt KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
> > Standardized abitguru messages for reporting and finding MAINTAINER
> > Compiled x86 allyesconfig only.
> > I inspected "strings drivers/hwmon/built-in.o",
> > but it's otherwise untested.
> > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
> There are several lines longer than 80 characters.
> Does this rule no longer apply ?

80 columns isn't checked for printk format strings.

A kernel general preference may be to keep formats as
a single string without line breaks so that grep works
better.

> Oddly enough, there are only four checkpatch warnings about long lines,
> even though there are many more.

The version I use doesn't show any warnings.

cheers, Joe

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