RE: [staging-next 02/12] staging/easycap: prefer printk over SAY in module entry functions

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Carpenter [mailto:error27@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 1:34 AM
> To: Winkler, Tomas
> Cc: gregkh@xxxxxxx; devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Mike Thomas
> Subject: Re: [staging-next 02/12] staging/easycap: prefer printk over SAY in
> module entry functions
> 
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 01:12:41AM +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > +	printk(KERN_INFO "Easycap version: "EASYCAP_DRIVER_VERSION "\n");
> > +
> 
> These should just be deleted.  The user can use `modinfo` if they care.

It is very common and I think also good practices to notify user when a driver is loaded.

Very rough estimation:

find linux-2.6 -name "*.c" | xargs grep __init -A 10 | grep KERN_INFO  | wc -l 
970

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