netdev - Re: [PATCH] atm: ambassador: remove h from printk format specifier

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Date:   Thu, 17 Dec 2020 05:17:24 -0800
From:   Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     3chas3@...il.com, linux-atm-general@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] atm: ambassador: remove h from printk format specifier


On 12/16/20 4:45 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 06:22:28 -0800 trix@...hat.com wrote:
>> From: Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>
>>
>> See Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst.
>> h should no longer be used in the format specifier for printk.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>
> That's for new code I assume?
>
> What's the harm in leaving this ancient code be?

This change is part of a tree wide cleanup.

drivers/atm status is listed as Maintained in MAINTAINERS so changes like this should be ok.

Should drivers/atm status be changed?

Tom

>
>> diff --git a/drivers/atm/ambassador.c b/drivers/atm/ambassador.c
>> index c039b8a4fefe..6b0fff8c0141 100644
>> --- a/drivers/atm/ambassador.c
>> +++ b/drivers/atm/ambassador.c
>> @@ -2169,7 +2169,7 @@ static void setup_pci_dev(struct pci_dev *pci_dev)
>>  		pci_lat = (lat < MIN_PCI_LATENCY) ? MIN_PCI_LATENCY : lat;
>>  
>>  	if (lat != pci_lat) {
>> -		PRINTK (KERN_INFO, "Changing PCI latency timer from %hu to %hu",
>> +		PRINTK (KERN_INFO, "Changing PCI latency timer from %u to %u",
>>  			lat, pci_lat);
>>  		pci_write_config_byte(pci_dev, PCI_LATENCY_TIMER, pci_lat);
>>  	}
>> @@ -2300,7 +2300,7 @@ static void __init amb_check_args (void) {
>>    unsigned int max_rx_size;
>>    
>>  #ifdef DEBUG_AMBASSADOR
>> -  PRINTK (KERN_NOTICE, "debug bitmap is %hx", debug &= DBG_MASK);
>> +  PRINTK (KERN_NOTICE, "debug bitmap is %x", debug &= DBG_MASK);
>>  #else
>>    if (debug)
>>      PRINTK (KERN_NOTICE, "no debugging support");