linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] atm: idt77252: Remove redundant error check

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Date:	Sun, 18 May 2014 21:14:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	peter.senna@...il.com
Cc:	chas@....nrl.navy.mil, linux-atm-general@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] atm: idt77252: Remove redundant error check

From: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 20:22:59 +0200

> Remove double checks, and move the call to printk to the
> first check. Also adds KERN_WARNING to printk. The simplified version
> of the coccinelle semantic patch that fixes this issue is as follows:

The appropriate thing to use is pr_warning() rather than add
KERN_WARNING.
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