linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: s5pv210: remove unused call of pr

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Message-ID: <CAK9yfHzf-Z3AQ4+-sF7xqqUw4dN8aULkCNvLQnmusp_ZiOg+Rw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 22 May 2014 13:53:41 +0530
From:	Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@...aro.org>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
	"cpufreq@...r.kernel.org" <cpufreq@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: s5pv210: remove unused call of pr_err()

Hi Paul,

On 22 May 2014 12:11, Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl> wrote:
> Sachin,
>
> On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 08:52 +0530, Sachin Kamat wrote:
>> The config symbol itself is not defined and hence could be removed.
>> However I feel, the
>> error message could be retained after trimming down the arguments a bit.
>
> My reasoning is, of course, that never used code can simply be dropped.

Yes, I agree. However the error message in this case should have been outside
the ifdefs to begin with as it is not an extra information but an
essential message
reporting error condition.

>
> But you want to print an error here. That's fine with me. I prefer if
> you'd submit a patch that does that, as I have no idea whatsoever why an
> error is needed here nor what that error should say.

You may just remove the __FILE__ and __LINE__ thing and leave the message as is.

pr_err("Denied access to %s as it is disabled temporarily\n", __func__);

-- 
With warm regards,
Sachin
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