Re: [PATCH] ti-st: Enhange logging for Shared Transport - TI driver

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Mar 15 2012 - 20:35:35 EST


On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 01:30:43AM +0100, Mircea Gherzan wrote:
>
> This is what I get now (with no debug) when loading the btwilink module
> that uses ti-st:
>
> [ 129.567382] (stk) :change remote baud rate command in firmware
> [ 129.573577] (stk) :skipping the wait event of change remote baud
>
> This is:
> 1. too "verbose" => these 2 prints should belong to debug
> 2. poorly formated
> 3. not telling me which driver generated this output
> 4. not giving me the version of the firmware that was loaded.
>
> To address 2 and 3, please remove the the "(stc)" / "(stk)" prefixes and
> use instead the quite widespread prefix KBUILD_MODNAME ": "

No, just use the proper dev_*() functions instead, it will tell you
exactly what driver and device emitted the message, that is what it is
there for.

thanks,

greg k-h
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