netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net/core: tidy up an error message

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Date:   Mon, 03 Dec 2018 16:15:14 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     cai@....us
Cc:     yisen.zhuang@...wei.com, salil.mehta@...wei.com, joe@...ches.com,
        stephen@...workplumber.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net/core: tidy up an error message

From: Qian Cai <cai@....us>
Date: Sat,  1 Dec 2018 21:11:19 -0500

> netif_napi_add() could report an error like this below due to it allows
> to pass a format string for wildcarding before calling
> dev_get_valid_name(),
> 
> "netif_napi_add() called with weight 256 on device eth%d"
> 
> For example, hns_enet_drv module does this.
> 
> hns_nic_try_get_ae
>   hns_nic_init_ring_data
>     netif_napi_add
>   register_netdev
>     dev_get_valid_name
> 
> Hence, make it a bit more human-readable by using netdev_err_once()
> instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@....us>

Applied, thanks.