[Outreachy kernel] Re: [PATCH v3] staging: rtl8192u: Replace printk() with more standardize output format.

[Dan Carpenter]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 11:52:16AM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2018, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 04:09:09PM +0530, Arushi Singhal wrote:
> > > @@ -276,22 +276,22 @@ static int ieee80211_ccmp_decrypt(struct sk_buff *skb, int hdr_len, void *priv)
> > >  	keyidx = pos[3];
> > >  	if (!(keyidx & (1 << 5))) {
> > >  		if (net_ratelimit()) {
> > > -			printk(KERN_DEBUG "CCMP: received packet without ExtIV flag from %pM\n",
> > > -				hdr->addr2);
> > > +			netdev_dbg(skb->dev, "CCMP: received packet without ExtIV flag from %pM\n",
> > > +				   hdr->addr2);
> > >  		}
> >
> > I'm sorry.  I really hate to do this to you...  But the right thing here
> > is to use net_dbg_ratelimited() but get rid of the if (net_ratelimit())
> > check.  So it looks like this:
> >
> > 	if (!(keyidx & (1 << 5))) {
> > 		net_dbg_ratelimited(skb->dev,
> > 				    "CCMP: received packet without ExtIV flag from %pM\n",
> > 				    hdr->addr2);
> > 	}
> >
> > Sorry again, when I looked at it before I just replied what my fast
> > thinking lizard brain said instead of taking time to look at what I was
> > saying.
> 
> I don't think that net_dbg_ratelimited wants a skb->dev argument.  The
> various definitions in include/linux/net.h just have fmt as the first
> argument.
>

Ah....  That's fine then.  Don't worry about it.

regards,
dan carpenter