Re: [PATCH 3/3] xgifb: checkpatch cleanup, printk() KERN_*

From: sam hansen
Date: Sat Jan 21 2012 - 12:18:45 EST


> These last two should be KERN_CONT
> though the block could be rewritten as
>
>        if (XGIInitNew(pdev))
>                printk(KERN_INFO "XGIfb: XGIInitNew() ... OK\n");
>        else
>                printk(KERN_ERR "XGIfb: XGIInitNew() ... Fail\n");
>
> Emitting any dmesg output like "XGIInitNew() ... OK\n"
> is almost always low value.
>
> Perhaps just emitting on the error case is better:
>        if (!XGIInitNew(pdev))
>                printk(KERN_ERR "XGIfb: XBIInitNew() failed\n");

Cool. See Re: Dan. I will fold the printk logic up.

> One other thing.  It would be better to add
> #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
> before any #include and convert all the
> printks(KERN_<LEVEL> to pr_<level>(
> stripping all the leading XGIfb: too.

I might take a stab at eliminating explicit calls to printk and use a macro.
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