linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Staging: i4l: act2000: Fixed warning "use pr

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Date:   Sun, 9 Oct 2016 16:40:04 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Harman Kalra <harman4linux@...il.com>
Cc:     sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com, bankarsandhya512@...il.com,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: i4l: act2000: Fixed warning "use pr_* instead
 of printk"

On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 07:58:00PM +0530, Harman Kalra wrote:
> This patch replaces calls to the "printk" with  appropriate "pr_*"
> function thus addressing the following warning generated by the
> checkpatch script:
> 
> Prefer [subsystem eg: netdev]_warn([subsystem]dev, ... then
> 	dev_warn(dev, ... then pr_warn(...  to printk(KERN_WARNING ...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Harman Kalra <harman4linux@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/act2000_isa.c |   23 ++++++++++-------------
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/act2000_isa.c b/drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/act2000_isa.c
> index ad7a039..1a91b52 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/act2000_isa.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/act2000_isa.c
> @@ -78,10 +78,10 @@
>  	if (istatus & ISA_ISR_ERR) {
>  		/* Error Interrupt */
>  		istatus &= ISA_ISR_ERR_MASK;
> -		printk(KERN_WARNING "act2000: errIRQ\n");
> +		pr_warn("act2000: errIRQ\n");
>  	}
>  	if (istatus)
> -		printk(KERN_DEBUG "act2000: ?IRQ %d %02x\n", card->irq, istatus);
> +		pr_warn("act2000: ?IRQ %d %02x\n", card->irq, istatus);

shouldn't that be pr_debug()?