linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] staging: rtl8192u: remove split in user-visible string

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Date:   Wed, 8 Mar 2023 17:53:33 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Leonid Pershin <leonid.pershin@...il.com>
Cc:     Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>,
        Tong Zhang <ztong0001@...il.com>,
        Rebecca Mckeever <remckee0@...il.com>,
        Deepak R Varma <drv@...lo.com>,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: rtl8192u: remove split in user-visible string

On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 10:35:57PM +0300, Leonid Pershin wrote:
> According to coding style, user-visible strings in printk()
> function calls cannot be split across multiple lines.
> Issue found with checkpatch.pl.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Leonid Pershin <leonid.pershin@...il.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
>   - Replace printk(KERN_DEBUG...) with pr_debug()

Now you are doing two different things, please only do one thing per
patch.

> 
>  drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_tkip.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_tkip.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_tkip.c
> index 9bfd24ad46b6..c378bdff453b 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_tkip.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_tkip.c
> @@ -72,16 +72,14 @@ static void *ieee80211_tkip_init(int key_idx)
>  
>  	priv->tx_tfm_michael = crypto_alloc_shash("michael_mic", 0, 0);
>  	if (IS_ERR(priv->tx_tfm_michael)) {
> -		printk(KERN_DEBUG "ieee80211_crypt_tkip: could not allocate "
> -				"crypto API michael_mic\n");
> +		pr_debug("ieee80211_crypt_tkip: could not allocate crypto API michael_mic\n");

Are you sure you need the prefix now that you are using pr_debug()?  And
as this is a driver, why not use the networking debug macros instead?

>  		priv->tx_tfm_michael = NULL;
>  		goto fail;
>  	}
>  
>  	priv->rx_tfm_michael = crypto_alloc_shash("michael_mic", 0, 0);
>  	if (IS_ERR(priv->rx_tfm_michael)) {
> -		printk(KERN_DEBUG "ieee80211_crypt_tkip: could not allocate "
> -				"crypto API michael_mic\n");
> +		pr_debug("ieee80211_crypt_tkip: could not allocate crypto API michael_mic\n");

Same here, do you still need the prefix and why not dev_dbg() or the
network version?

thanks,

greg k-h