[PATCH 06/28] staging: comedi: rti800: remove board attach kernel noise

H Hartley Sweeten hartleys at visionengravers.com
Tue Apr 9 16:47:28 UTC 2013


On Tuesday, April 09, 2013 2:39 AM, Ian Abbott wrote:
> On 2013-04-09 02:15, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
>> The printk's during the bard attach are just added noise. Remove
>> them.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten at visionengravers.com>
>> Cc: Ian Abbott <abbotti at mev.co.uk>
>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
>> ---
>>   drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/rti800.c | 12 ++----------
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/rti800.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/rti800.c
>> index 1d8cc34..fdfbf41 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/rti800.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/rti800.c
>> @@ -309,11 +309,8 @@ static int rti800_attach(struct comedi_device *dev, struct comedi_devconfig *it)
>>   	struct comedi_subdevice *s;
>>
>>   	iobase = it->options[0];
>> -	printk(KERN_INFO "comedi%d: rti800: 0x%04lx\n", dev->minor, iobase);
>> -	if (!request_region(iobase, RTI800_SIZE, "rti800")) {
>> -		printk(KERN_WARNING "I/O port conflict\n");
>> +	if (!request_region(iobase, RTI800_SIZE, "rti800"))
>>   		return -EIO;
>> -	}
>>   	dev->iobase = iobase;
>>
>>   	outb(0, dev->iobase + RTI800_CSR);
>> @@ -322,15 +319,10 @@ static int rti800_attach(struct comedi_device *dev, struct comedi_devconfig *it)
>>
>>   	irq = it->options[1];
>>   	if (irq) {
>> -		printk(KERN_INFO "( irq = %u )\n", irq);
>>   		ret = request_irq(irq, rti800_interrupt, 0, "rti800", dev);
>> -		if (ret < 0) {
>> -			printk(KERN_WARNING " Failed to allocate IRQ\n");
>> +		if (ret < 0)
>>   			return ret;
>> -		}
>>   		dev->irq = irq;
>> -	} else {
>> -		printk(KERN_INFO "( no irq )\n");
>>   	}
>>
>>   	dev->board_name = board->name;
>
> The error messages are useful diagnostics for legacy devices configured 
> with the "comedi_config" program, so I wouldn't remove them.

Fair enough.

The KERN_INFO messages are just added noise. How about taking this patch
series, and the acl7225b series, as-is and I will follow up with a patch adding
sensible dev_warn() messages for the errors?

Regards,
Hartley




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