linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] device: Make dev_WARN/dev_WARN_ONCE print device as well as driver name

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Message-ID: <20131025022941.GA2261@gimli>
Date:	Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:29:41 -0500
From:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
To:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
CC:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] device: Make dev_WARN/dev_WARN_ONCE print device as well
 as driver name

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 03:42:33PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> dev_WARN() and dev_WARN_ONCE() are annoying because (1) they include
> only the driver name, not the device name, and (2) they print a spurious
> newline in the middle.  This results in messages like this that are less
> useful than they should be:
> 
>   [   40.094995] Device pcieport
>   disabling already-disabled device
> 
> This patch makes them work more like dev_printk().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>

Pretty cool, much nicer output indeed :-)

Reviewed-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>

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balbi

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