[PATCH 1/2] OMAP2+: IOMMU: change OMAP2+ error message to dev_dbg()

David Cohen dacohen at gmail.com
Tue Feb 15 09:50:29 EST 2011


On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 04:36:26PM +0200, David Cohen wrote:
>> But pr_cont() would be wrong in case of DEBUG isn't set, isn't it?
>
> Yes.  One other solution you could do is:
>
>        char buf[80], *p = buf;
>
>        buf[0] = '\0';
>        for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(err_msg); i++)
>                if (stat & (1 << i))
>                        p += scnprintf(p, sizeof(buf) - (p - buf),
>                                        " %s", err_msg[i]);
>
>        dev_dbg(obj->dev, "%s: da:%08x%s\n", __func__, da, buf);
>
> which means that you're then printing the entire string in one go -
> and there's no chance for another message to come in the middle of it.
>
> Note that I've placed the ' ' at the beginning of the format string so
> that we don't end up with useless trailing space in messages.  Minor
> point but it's easy to do here.

That could be my choice.
I'm not planing to resend this patch, but how good/bad it sounds to
you to have dev_dbg_cont() for such situation?

Br,

David



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