[PATCH v3] omap: dmtimer: convert printk to pr_err

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 20:18 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 10:40:39AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > At some point in the next couple of years, I want
> > to convert all of, or as many as possible of, the
> > remaining printk uses to pr_<level>.
> If the idea is also to get rid of printk() too (which IMHO would be a
> good thing as it kills off the constant need to continually patch for
> missing KERN_ prefixes) then that's a good reason (provided Linus
> accepts the idea.)

I don't accept that idea yet.

There are about 50K printks vs 20K pr_<level>s
in kernel source.

I think 50K lines is _way_ too many to convert
in a couple of years.

I think it needs to be done subsystem by subsystem,
arch by arch, as maintainers accept.

And there's no hurry.

I have a script that automates most all of the
conversions, argument alignments, etc.