Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging/vme: Use pr_ printks in vme_user.c

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Sep 12 2012 - 10:04:47 EST


On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 04:36:19PM +0900, Toshiaki Yamane wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:08 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 04:16:14PM +0900, Toshiaki Yamane wrote:
> >> The below checkpatch warnings was fixed,
> >>
> >> -WARNING: Prefer pr_info(... to printk(KERN_INFO, ...
> >> -WARNING: Prefer pr_warn(... to printk(KERN_WARNING, ...
> >> -WARNING: Prefer pr_err(... to printk(KERN_ERR, ...
> >
> > A lot of these can be using dev_* instead of the pr_* functions, right?
> > Please convert to using them wherever possible.
> >
> > Because of that, I can't take this patch, sorry. Care to redo it?
>
> Yes. Is this collect?

"correct"?

> I must use dev_* procedure when the following conditions are met:
> - If I have access to struct device object by the argument of the procedure
> - Except for the right: struct net_device, etc.
>
> Otherwise, I must use pr_* procedure.

Yes, that is correct :)

greg k-h
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