Re: [PATCH 2.6] Fix dev_printk to work with unclaimed devices

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Deepak Saxena wrote:
> 
> I need to do some fixup in platform_notify() and when trying to 
> use the dev_* print functions for informational messages, they OOPs 
> b/c the current code assumes that dev->driver exists. This is not the 
> case since platform_notify() is called before a device has been attached
> to any driver. 

Make it a real function with varags, please.

On the other hand, it also is probably just _wrong_ to use "dev_printk()" 
if you aren't the driver for the device.

		Linus
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