netdev - Re: net: stmmac: don't use netdev_[dbg, info, ..] before net

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Message-ID: <1484504620.14692.8.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Sun, 15 Jan 2017 10:23:40 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: net: stmmac: don't use netdev_[dbg, info, ..] before net_device
 is registered

On Sun, 2017-01-15 at 19:17 +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> Don't use netdev_info and friends before the net_device is registered.
> This avoids ugly messages like
> "meson8b-dwmac c9410000.ethernet (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized):
> Enable RX Mitigation via HW Watchdog Timer"

It'd be nice to mention the new message prefix.