[PATCH] [Trivial] Make physmap messages more user friendly

[Jörn Engel]

On Thu, 13 October 2005 18:07:26 -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote:
> 
> Can I commit the following to CVS? It makes the message a bit more
> readalbe (and obvious that it is in hex) and tells the user if 
> the probe failed.

I'd like to wait until tglx considers cvs stable enough for a mainline
merge.  Thomas, besides the general lack of time, are there any major
blockers left?

> Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena at plexity.net>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/maps/physmap.c b/drivers/mtd/maps/physmap.c
> --- a/drivers/mtd/maps/physmap.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/maps/physmap.c
> @@ -50,11 +50,12 @@ static int __init init_physmap(void)
>  	static const char *rom_probe_types[] = { "cfi_probe", "jedec_probe", "map_rom", NULL };
>  	const char **type;
>  
> -       	printk(KERN_NOTICE "physmap flash device: %lx at %lx\n", physmap_map.size, physmap_map.phys);
> +       	printk(KERN_NOTICE "MTD physmap flash device: %#010lx @ %#010lx\n", 
> +			physmap_map.size, physmap_map.phys);
>  	physmap_map.virt = ioremap(physmap_map.phys, physmap_map.size);
>  
>  	if (!physmap_map.virt) {
> -		printk("Failed to ioremap\n");
> +		printk("MTD physmap: Failed to ioremap\n");
>  		return -EIO;
>  	}
>  
> @@ -90,6 +91,8 @@ static int __init init_physmap(void)
>  		add_mtd_device(mymtd);
>  
>  		return 0;
> +	} else {
> +		printk("MTD physmap: failed to probe flash\n");
                       ^
All other messages were KERN_NOTICE.

>  	}
>  
>  	iounmap(physmap_map.virt);
> 

Jörn

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