[PATCH 01/29] Staging: comedi: fix printk issue in dt3000.c

Ryan Mallon rmallon at gmail.com
Wed Dec 14 01:35:38 UTC 2011


On 12/12/11 16:19, Ravishankar karkala Mallikarjunayya wrote:

> This is a patch to the dt3000.c file that fixes up a
> printk warning found by the checkpatch.pl tool.
> 
> Converted printks to dev_<levels>.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ravishankar Karkala Mallikarjunayya <ravishankar.km at greenturtles.in>


There are still numerous issues with these patches, some which have been
pointed out to you several times now and still exist:

 - You are using printk/pr_info, etc where dev_info, etc should be used
 - You are converting some KERN_CONT to multiline dev_info, and in doing
so are now printing useless strings.
 - Some of the printk's you are 'fixing' should just get removed. Don't
blindly replace things, it just creates churn.
 - You are converting some printks to dev_dbg and leaving dev->minor in
the string which is no longer needed.
 - There are some subtle format changes introduced by the printk
changes. Not a big deal, but it should be noted in the changelog. It
might affect some userspace tools for the comedi drivers?
 - You have multiple patches which do the same thing. Why are there two
patches for converting printk -> dev_dbg in das1800.c for example? Why
not do all of the conversion changes for one file in a single patch?
 - Some of your patches don't do what they say they do.
 - You have compile errors still.

Some these patches probably are worth applying, but they are just lost
in the noise.

~Ryan



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