linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3] staging: wilc1000: use netdev

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Message-ID: <20150818061050.GG2941@sudip-pc>
Date:	Tue, 18 Aug 2015 11:40:50 +0530
From:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:	Raphaël Beamonte <raphael.beamonte@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Rachel Kim <rachel.kim@...el.com>,
	Dean Lee <dean.lee@...el.com>,
	Chris Park <chris.park@...el.com>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, Johnny Kim <johnny.kim@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] staging: wilc1000: use netdev_* instead of printk

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 01:27:31AM -0400, Raphaël Beamonte wrote:
> 2015-08-18 0:24 GMT-04:00 Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>:
> >> +                             netdev_err("[Sendconfigpkt]Get Timed out\n");
> > This will not compile. you can not just replace printk with
> > netdev_*, you need to mention a net_device.
> 
> You're right! I'm making a lot of mistakes. It seems I called the make
> command in the wrong git tree... Thanks for catching that, and taking
> time to review!
> I just saw there isn't any netdev_debug available. Do you know the
> reason for that? Is there a replacement besides pr_debug?
netdev_dbg
> Also, it seems that in all the functions where it's another netdev
> that's available that I could use, I don't have access to the
> net_device struct. Is there a general way to get that device
> information? I saw an old lkml post talking about dev_*() functions to
> do that? Would you have some hint on the matter?
If the function is not having the net_device try to see if you can
pass it the struct as an argument. if not possible then in any way then
no other way but to use pr_*

regards
sudip
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