On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 12:27:10PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 08:39:15AM +1000, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 03:15:32PM +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > > From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 14:54:35 +0200
> > >
> > > The use of the logging function "dev_err" was introduced here on 2016-09-26.
> > >
> > > I find the following implementation details worth for another look.
> > > * Reduce expressions for the first input parameter "dev".
> > >
> > > * Omit an extra module prefix in passed error messages because the device name
> > > will be displayed by the function "__dev_printk".
> > >
> > > Fixes: 9887b5e51fafaf919601ccb8bdae1e0ad749032f ("staging: ks7010: Fix warnings on printk() usage")
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c | 11 +++++------
> > > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c
> > > index b16618b41253..85feb170869b 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c
> > > @@ -955,12 +955,11 @@ static int ks7010_sdio_probe(struct sdio_func *func,
> > > /* private memory allocate */
> > > netdev = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(*priv));
> > > if (!netdev) {
> > > - dev_err(&card->func->dev, "ks7010 : Unable to alloc new net device\n");
> > > + dev_err(&func->dev, "Unable to alloc new net device\n");
> > > goto err_release_irq;
> > > }
> > > if (dev_alloc_name(netdev, "wlan%d") < 0) {
> > > - dev_err(&card->func->dev,
> > > - "ks7010 : Couldn't get name!\n");
> > > + dev_err(&func->dev, "Couldn't get name!\n");
> > > goto err_free_netdev;
> > > }
> > >
> > > @@ -1000,9 +999,9 @@ static int ks7010_sdio_probe(struct sdio_func *func,
> > > /* Upload firmware */
> > > ret = ks7010_upload_firmware(priv, card); /* firmware load */
> > > if (ret) {
> > > - dev_err(&card->func->dev,
> > > - "ks7010: firmware load failed !! return code = %d\n",
> > > - ret);
> > > + dev_err(&func->dev,
> > > + "firmware load failed! return code = %d\n",
> > > + ret);
> > > goto err_free_read_buf;
> > > }
> >
> > This patch does not apply to Greg's staging-testing branch. Sorry
> > Markus a patch was merged the same day you submitted this one that
> > refactored this code.
>
> Note, Markus is in almost all maintainers kill-file, so we don't even
> see their emails, and I'd recommend you not even worry about them
> either.
I've never heard of a kill-file, it sounds awesome. I hope to some day
have one of those myself. I settled for a incoming mail rule deleting his
email.
thanks for the tip,
Tobin.
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