On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 05:58:41PM +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote: > pr_ format is more compact and enable utilizing of pr_fmt macro > > Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/staging/mei/main.c | 17 ++++++++--------- > 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/mei/main.c b/drivers/staging/mei/main.c > index 383ae9f..fd987ac 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/mei/main.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/mei/main.c > @@ -962,7 +962,7 @@ static int __devinit mei_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, > /* enable pci dev */ > err = pci_enable_device(pdev); > if (err) { > - printk(KERN_ERR "mei: Failed to enable pci device.\n"); > + pr_err("failed to enable pci device.\n"); No, use dev_err() here. > goto end; > } > /* set PCI host mastering */ > @@ -970,7 +970,7 @@ static int __devinit mei_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, > /* pci request regions for mei driver */ > err = pci_request_regions(pdev, mei_driver_name); > if (err) { > - printk(KERN_ERR "mei: Failed to get pci regions.\n"); > + pr_err("failed to get pci regions.\n"); And here. > goto disable_device; > } > /* allocates and initializes the mei dev structure */ > @@ -982,7 +982,7 @@ static int __devinit mei_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, > /* mapping IO device memory */ > dev->mem_addr = pci_iomap(pdev, 0, 0); > if (!dev->mem_addr) { > - printk(KERN_ERR "mei: mapping I/O device memory failure.\n"); > + pr_err("mapping I/O device memory failure.\n"); And here. > err = -ENOMEM; > goto free_device; > } > @@ -1001,13 +1001,13 @@ static int __devinit mei_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, > IRQF_SHARED, mei_driver_name, dev); > > if (err) { > - printk(KERN_ERR "mei: request_threaded_irq failure. irq = %d\n", > + pr_err("request_threaded_irq failure. irq = %d\n", > pdev->irq); And here. And odds are, everywhere else in this patch. A driver should almost never have any pr_* functions called. Your 1/4 patch in this series is about all that it would ever have. Everything else should use the dev_* functions instead. I can't take this patch, sorry. greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel