linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: print symbolic error name instead of error code

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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 17:12:06 -0700
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To: Christian Heusel <christian@...sel.eu>,
 Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@...nel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
 Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>,
 Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, Min Li <min15.li@...sung.com>,
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
 linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 dan.carpenter@...aro.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: print symbolic error name instead of error code

On 1/11/24 4:56 PM, Christian Heusel wrote:
> On 24/01/12 08:37AM, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>> On 1/12/24 08:15, Christian Heusel wrote:
>>> -           printk(KERN_ERR " %s: p%d could not be added: %ld\n",
>>> -                  disk->disk_name, p, -PTR_ERR(part));
>>> +           printk(KERN_ERR " %s: p%d could not be added: %pe\n",
>>> +                  disk->disk_name, p, part);
>>
>> pr_err() ?
> 
> If desired I can send a v2 containing another patch which refactors the
> usages of printk into their respective pr_* aliases, but I wanted to
> keep this consistent to the usages in rest of the file and do one change
> at a time.

Yes let's please keep that separate, not a huge fan of conversions of that
anyway as it just causes backports or stable kernel issues.

-- 
Jens Axboe