linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] staging: rtl8188eu: remove RT_TRACE and DBG_88E prints from usb

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Date:   Mon, 14 Jun 2021 16:58:22 +0200
From:   Martin Kaiser <martin@...ser.cx>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] staging: rtl8188eu: remove RT_TRACE and DBG_88E
 prints from usb_intf.c

Thus wrote Dan Carpenter (dan.carpenter@...cle.com):

> On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 08:00:19PM +0200, Martin Kaiser wrote:
> > These prints are disabled by default.


> Not, just by default.  There is literally no way to enable them.

> > Replace the print after dev_alloc_name with proper error handling.


> Ugh...  :(  This part really needs to be done first and in a separate
> patch.  You can delete the RT_TRACE() from that one call site since it's
> on the same line but the subject of the patch needs to say something
> like "check for allocation failure".  It can't be "remove RT_TRACE and
> DBG_88E prints".

ok, understood. I'll split this in two (and fix it, I forgot a
semicolon).

Thanks,

   Martin