Re: [PATCH] scsi: libsas: Remove pcidev reference

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Nov 12 2018 - 14:52:49 EST


On Mon, 2018-11-12 at 19:31 +0000, John Garry wrote:
> On 12/11/2018 18:58, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > +#define pr_fmt(fmt) "sas: " fmt
> > > >
> > > > Some other subsystem may try to include this header, and gets its
> > > > message prefix overwritten. Just a consequence for doing something bad,
> > > > right?
> > Right.
> >
> > And as this file is internal to drivers/scsi/libsas
> > that seems very unlikely to occur.
> >
> > It also might useful to use the common debugging
> > mechanisms and convert SAS_DPRINTK to pr_debug
> > which would use the same #define pr_fmt.
> >
>
> OK, I will try to put this all together as a marginally wider scope tidy-up.

Thanks.

Another thing that could be done is to change
the #define pr_fmt(fmt) to KBUILD_MODNAME as
that would prefix "libsas" instead of just "sas".

I think that would be better but I didn't do that
as it should be in a separate patch.