On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 11:48:05PM +0530, Hema Prathaban wrote: > This patch fixes the following warning using checkpatch.pl > WARNING: Prefer [subsystem eg: netdev]_warn([subsystem]dev, ... then > dev_warn(dev, ... then pr_warn(... to printk(KERN_WARNING ... > > Signed-off-by: Hema Prathaban <hemaklnce@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/debug.c | 6 +++--- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/debug.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/debug.c > index 6b58469..8143ebe 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/debug.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/debug.c > @@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ void libcfs_debug_dumplog_internal(void *arg) > snprintf(debug_file_name, sizeof(debug_file_name) - 1, > "%s.%ld.%ld", libcfs_debug_file_path_arr, > get_seconds(), (long_ptr_t)arg); > - printk(KERN_ALERT "LustreError: dumping log to %s\n", > + pr_alert(KERN_ALERT "LustreError: dumping log to %s\n", > debug_file_name); > cfs_tracefile_dump_all_pages(debug_file_name); > libcfs_run_debug_log_upcall(debug_file_name); > @@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ void libcfs_debug_dumplog(void) > (void *)(long)current_pid(), > "libcfs_debug_dumper"); > if (IS_ERR(dumper)) > - printk(KERN_ERR "LustreError: cannot start log dump thread:" > + pr_err(KERN_ERR "LustreError: cannot start log dump thread:" You need to take the printk prefix off of these types of lines if you are using the pr_*() macro, otherwise you will get a mess in the system log. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel