linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] PCI/AER: update AER status string print to match other AER logs

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Message-ID: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6DD0099999@AcuExch.aculab.com>
Date:   Tue, 17 Oct 2017 16:00:40 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Tyler Baicar' <tbaicar@...eaurora.org>,
        "bhelgaas@...gle.com" <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        "helgaas@...nel.org" <helgaas@...nel.org>,
        "linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] PCI/AER: update AER status string print to match other
 AER logs

From: Tyler Baicar
> Sent: 17 October 2017 16:42
> Currently the AER driver uses cper_print_bits() to print the AER status
> string. This causes the status string to not include the proper PCI device
> name prefix that the other AER prints include. Also, it has a different
> print level than all the other AER prints.
> 
> Update the AER driver to print the AER status string with the proper string
> prefix and proper print level.
> 
> Previous log example:
> 
> e1000e 0003:01:00.1: aer_status: 0x00000041, aer_mask: 0x00000000
> Receiver Error, Bad TLP
...
> New log:
> 
> e1000e 0003:01:00.1: aer_status: 0x00000041, aer_mask: 0x00000000
> e1000e 0003:01:00.1: Receiver Error
> e1000e 0003:01:00.1: Bad TLP

Wouldn't it be better to manage to print the above all on 1 line?

...
> index 54c4b69..b718daa 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv_errprint.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv_errprint.c
> @@ -206,6 +206,19 @@ void aer_print_port_info(struct pci_dev *dev, struct aer_err_info *info)
>  }
> 
>  #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_PCIEAER
> +void dev_print_bits(struct pci_dev *dev, unsigned int bits,
> +		    const char * const strs[], unsigned int strs_size)

static and rename to aer_print_bits since this isn't a generic 'dev'
function.

	David