As suggested by russell,printk in the fail scenario is an error and should be reported at error severity.They cause things to stop working and so they are not just a warning so changed to pr_err. Signed-off-by: anish kumar <anish198519851985@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/video/amba-clcd.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/amba-clcd.c b/drivers/video/amba-clcd.c index 5fc983c..9f27c71 100644 --- a/drivers/video/amba-clcd.c +++ b/drivers/video/amba-clcd.c @@ -545,13 +545,13 @@ static int clcdfb_probe(struct amba_device *dev, const struct amba_id *id) ret = amba_request_regions(dev, NULL); if (ret) { - printk(KERN_ERR "CLCD: unable to reserve regs region\n"); + pr_err("CLCD: unable to reserve regs region\n"); goto out; } fb = kzalloc(sizeof(struct clcd_fb), GFP_KERNEL); if (!fb) { - printk(KERN_INFO "CLCD: could not allocate new clcd_fb struct\n"); + pr_err("CLCD: could not allocate new clcd_fb struct\n"); ret = -ENOMEM; goto free_region; } -- 1.7.0.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html