netdev - Re: [PATCH] skbuff: fix compilation warnings in skb

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Message-ID: <fa656d2d8a1677a0a1fbea4b7f60dfca2661827b.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Tue, 16 Jul 2019 20:06:32 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>,
        Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] skbuff: fix compilation warnings in skb_dump()

On Tue, 2019-07-16 at 17:04 +0200, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 4:56 PM Qian Cai <cai@....pw> wrote:
> > Fix them by using the proper types, and also fix some checkpatch
> > warnings by using pr_info().
> > 
> > WARNING: printk() should include KERN_<LEVEL> facility level
> > +               printk("%ssk family=%hu type=%u proto=%u\n",
> 
> Converting printk to pr_info lowers all levels to KERN_INFO.
> 
> skb_dump takes an explicit parameter level to be able to log at
> KERN_ERR or KERN_WARNING
> 
> I would like to avoid those checkpatch warnings, but this is not the
> right approach.

Just ignore checkpatch when it doesn't know that
the printk actually includes a KERN_<LEVEL> via
"%s...", level