[PATCH 15/16] Staging: quickstart: Add QS_INFO and QS_ERR macros for logs

Joe Perches joe at perches.com
Wed Jan 11 20:51:32 UTC 2012


On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 18:55 +0100, Szymon Janc wrote:
> > >  #define QUICKSTART_PF_DRIVER_NAME	"quickstart"
> > >  #define QUICKSTART_PF_DEVICE_NAME	"quickstart"
> > > 
> > > +#define QS_INFO(fmt, arg...)	printk(KERN_INFO "quickstart: " fmt "\n",
> > > ##arg) +#define QS_ERR(fmt, arg...)	printk(KERN_ERR "quickstart: " fmt
> > > "\n", ##arg) +
> > 
> > No.  Don't do this.  You can do same thing with pr_err() so you
> > don't need to create your own macros.  Just add this to the front:
> > 
> > #define pr_fmt(fmt) "quickstart: " fmt
> > 
> > We already have a million standard ways of printing stuff, we don't
> > need a million and two.
> 
> Ok, and thanks for review! I'll send V2 shortly.

Before you send V2, this is better as:
#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt




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