[PATCH] Staging: dt3155v4l: Convert printk's to pr_<level>

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 07:15:38PM -0500, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 06, 2011 4:53 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 04:53:55PM -0700, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> >> Convert all the printk(KERN_<level>) messages in the driver to pr_<level>()
> >> and use pr_fmt to provide the module name.
> >
> > What's wrong with using dev_* instead of pr_*?  Lots of these should be
> > converted to that format instead, right?
> 
> Nothing... dev_* should be used when possible.
> 
> Actually all of the messages look like they are just plain noise and should
> be removed.  Especially the ones in dt3155_{init,exit}_module.  A lot of the
> ones in dt3155_probe look like noise also.
> 
> The ones in {read,write,wait}_i2c_reg just look messy.  Those functions also
> don't have a device pointer to use the dev_* functions.

Really?  It should have an i2c device somewhere.

> The ones in dt3155_irq_handler seem troublesome.  Isn't it a bad idea to output
> a kernel message in an interrupt handler?

Yes, don't do that.

> dt3155_{open,close} also look like noise.  Same with dt3155_init_board.
> 
> Maybe I should just submit a patch removing all of them?

Please do :)

thanks,

greg k-h