Re: [PATCH 6/6] staging: media: atomisp: use printk with KERN facility level

From: Deepak R Varma
Date: Tue Apr 20 2021 - 13:14:10 EST


On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:35:23AM +0200, Fabio Aiuto wrote:
> Hi Deepak,
>
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 12:46:40AM +0530, Deepak R Varma wrote:
> > printk() without KERN_<LEVEL> facility is flagged by checkpatch as a
> > warning. It is better to use pr_info() which comes with an
> > inbuilt KERN_INFO level.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Deepak R Varma <drv@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/staging/media/atomisp/i2c/atomisp-gc0310.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/i2c/atomisp-gc0310.c b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/i2c/atomisp-gc0310.c
> > index b572551f1a0d..a0f3c5c32f94 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/i2c/atomisp-gc0310.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/i2c/atomisp-gc0310.c
> > @@ -1020,7 +1020,7 @@ static int gc0310_set_fmt(struct v4l2_subdev *sd,
> > return -EINVAL;
> > }
> >
> > - printk("%s: before gc0310_write_reg_array %s\n", __func__,
> > + pr_info("%s: before gc0310_write_reg_array %s\n", __func__,
> > gc0310_res[dev->fmt_idx].desc);
>
> in a driver is best recommended to replace a raw printk call
> with a dev_*() log. Check few lines above here to see
> how it is done.

Hello Fabio,
thank you for the feedback. Should I resubmit this patch with additional
printk() / pr_info() replacement by dev_*()? OR send in a new patch with
this change? Just want to make sure I am not including more than one
change type in the patch.

deepak.

>
>
> > ret = startup(sd);
> > if (ret) {
> > --
> > 2.25.1
> >
> >
>
>
> thank you,
>
> fabio