Re: [PATCH 001/001] drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c: checkpatch warning

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri Mar 31 2017 - 23:33:58 EST


On Fri, 2017-03-31 at 20:18 -0700, Chewie Lin wrote:
> These are good points, but any feedback on the dev_warn() call itself?
> I was trying to fix the checkpatch warning on my first try.

Using "%s" with a long string is generally inefficient.

Compare the compiled object size of
printf("%s is %d\n", "Long string", 1);
to
printf("Long string is %d\n", 1);