Hi, Jesper as you told it would be better to make one printk(KERN_ERR...) for all levels instead of two. What is your opinion? Thanks & Regards Ravishankar On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Ravishankar wrote: > >> From: Ravishankar <ravi.shankar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> This is a patch to the adv_pci_dio.c file that fixes up a printk warning found by the checkpatch.pl tool >> >> Signed-off-by: Ravishankar <ravishankarkm32@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/adv_pci_dio.c | 18 +++++++++--------- >> 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/adv_pci_dio.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/adv_pci_dio.c >> index d23799b..1d2261f 100644 >> --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/adv_pci_dio.c >> +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/adv_pci_dio.c >> @@ -1106,11 +1106,11 @@ static int pci_dio_attach(struct comedi_device *dev, >> unsigned long iobase; >> struct pci_dev *pcidev = NULL; >> >> - printk("comedi%d: adv_pci_dio: ", dev->minor); >> + printk(KERN_INFO "comedi%d: adv_pci_dio: ", dev->minor); >> > > This printk() is used both for printing out information in the case of > success, in which case the KERN_INFO level is fine. But it is also used to > print out error messages in case of failure, in which case KERN_WARNING > would probably be better. So I'm wondering if it wouldn't be better to > restructure the code so that the printing of error messages and success > info becomes two seperate printk()'s each with the apropriate level. > > >> ret = alloc_private(dev, sizeof(struct pci_dio_private)); >> if (ret < 0) { >> - printk(", Error: Cann't allocate private memory!\n"); >> + printk(KERN_CONT ", Error: Cann't allocate private memory!\n"); > > Might as well fix the spelling error ( s/Cann't/Can't/ ) while you are > changing the line anyway. > > >> return -ENOMEM; >> } >> >> @@ -1140,19 +1140,19 @@ static int pci_dio_attach(struct comedi_device *dev, >> } >> >> if (!dev->board_ptr) { >> - printk(", Error: Requested type of the card was not found!\n"); >> + printk(KERN_WARNING ", Error: Requested type of the card was not " >> + "found!\n"); > > As Joe Perches already pointed out to you, this is a continuation of the > first printk() and should be using KERN_CONT. > > >> return -EIO; >> } >> >> if (comedi_pci_enable(pcidev, driver_pci_dio.driver_name)) { >> printk >> - (", Error: Can't enable PCI device and request regions!\n"); >> + (KERN_WARNING ", Error: Can't enable PCI device and request " >> + "regions!\n"); > > This one as well. And it has got to be possible to find a less hideous way > to break that line.. > > what about: > > printk(KERN_CONT > ", Error: Can't enable PCI device and request regions!\n"); > > ? If it even needs to be broken at all (the 80 column rule is not fixed in > stone). > > >> return -EIO; >> } >> iobase = pci_resource_start(pcidev, this_board->main_pci_region); >> - printk(", b:s:f=%d:%d:%d, io=0x%4lx", >> - pcidev->bus->number, PCI_SLOT(pcidev->devfn), >> - PCI_FUNC(pcidev->devfn), iobase); >> + printk(KERN_CONT ", b:s:f=%d:%d:%d, io=0x%4lx", >> + pcidev->bus->number, PCI_SLOT(pcidev->devfn), >> + PCI_FUNC(pcidev->devfn), iobase); >> >> dev->iobase = iobase; >> dev->board_name = this_board->name; >> @@ -1178,11 +1178,11 @@ static int pci_dio_attach(struct comedi_device *dev, >> >> ret = alloc_subdevices(dev, n_subdevices); >> if (ret < 0) { >> - printk(", Error: Cann't allocate subdevice memory!\n"); >> + printk(KERN_CONT ", Error: Cann't allocate subdevice memory!\n"); >> return ret; >> } >> >> - printk(".\n"); >> + printk(KERN_CONT ".\n"); >> >> subdev = 0; >> > > Please take the feedback people give you serious. Joe kindly pointed out > your mistakes the last time you posted this and yet your next patch has > the exact same mistakes. > > Read through your patches before you send them and double check each and > every change - then check it again. > > -- > Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.chaosbits.net/ > Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html > Plain text mails only, please. > > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel