linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/18] printk: Convert pr_fmt from blank define to KBUILD

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Message-ID: <18d24efb4d5dafae2360cb2103b366098311998a.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Thu, 10 May 2018 18:57:25 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
Cc:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/18] printk: Convert pr_fmt from blank define to
 KBUILD_MODNAME

On Fri, 2018-05-11 at 10:51 +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (05/10/18 08:45), Joe Perches wrote:
> > There are more than 1000 uses of #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
> > Make that the default define so these uses can be removed later via script.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
> 
> In general, the idea looks OK to me, so FWIW
> Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
> 
> A quick question:
> 
> - Would "can be removed later via script" be so trivial?
>   What about these guys?
> 
> drivers/of/address.c:#define pr_fmt(fmt)        "OF: " fmt
> drivers/of/base.c:#define pr_fmt(fmt)   "OF: " fmt
> drivers/of/dynamic.c:#define pr_fmt(fmt)        "OF: " fmt
> drivers/of/fdt.c:#define pr_fmt(fmt)    "OF: fdt: " fmt
> drivers/of/fdt_address.c:#define pr_fmt(fmt)    "OF: fdt: " fmt
> drivers/of/irq.c:#define pr_fmt(fmt)    "OF: " fmt
> drivers/of/of_numa.c:#define pr_fmt(fmt) "OF: NUMA: " fmt
> drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c:#define pr_fmt(fmt)        "OF: reserved mem: " fmt
> drivers/of/overlay.c:#define pr_fmt(fmt)        "OF: overlay: " fmt
> drivers/of/platform.c:#define pr_fmt(fmt)       "OF: " fmt
> drivers/of/property.c:#define pr_fmt(fmt)       "OF: " fmt
> drivers/of/resolver.c:#define pr_fmt(fmt)       "OF: resolver: " fmt

What about them?

All those defines above are non-generic as they are
specified to start with "OF: " and then some optional
extra bit.

Why should these defines be updated or modified?