[PATCH v2 2/4] mtd: nand: convert printk() to pr_*()
Brian Norris
computersforpeace at gmail.com
Thu Jun 9 12:22:32 EDT 2011
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Brian, would you please send a new series? I suggest you the following
> order of things.
>
> 1. clean-up of non-DEBUG() messages.
> 1.1. go through all printks and check if KERN_* is ok, fix. E.g.,
> I can see that all KERN_DEBUG should become KERN_INFO
> 1.2. go through all printks and check if the function name prefix
> makes sense there - kill those which do not.
>
> Also, while doing this, keep in mind that messages will be later
> turned into dev_* (dev_info(), dev_err(), etc) so they will be
> automatically prefixed with the device name which is already some
> identification of the source of the message.
>
> 1.3. turn messages to dev_*
> 1.4. make another pass and do all the lines consolidations,
> alignments, punctuation, etc etc.
>
> 2. clean-up of DEBUG() cruft.
> 2.1 change DEBUG() with dev_dbg()
>
> Kill all function name prefixes as well. The rationale is: dev_dbg()
> already adds function name prefixe (and process id) if dynamic
> debugging is enabled. In case of debugging with DEBUG macro, you
> anyway have to change the code (adding #define DEBUG) so you might
> easily defind pr_fmt at the same time for youself.
>
> How does this sound to you?
Sounds good. Will send patches later today, I think.
> FWIW: I've moved the patches I pushed from the master branch to the
> "brian" branch of l2-mtd-2.6.git tree. But they will not be useful
> for you, I guess.
Thanks, although I will have to rework all of them :)
Brian
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