Re: [PATCH 01/12] libata: update EH report formatting

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Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Update formatting for LLD provided error descriptions such that...
>>
>> * No default () around it
>> * Each element is separated by <> not ,
>>
>> This change makes each element responsible for putting a space after
>> itself instead of before - e.g. "<elem> " not ", elem".  This is more
>> conventional and allows more flexible combination of messages.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> either way, it is messy.
> 
> I guarantee that programmers are not going to remember always to add a
> "magic space" after certain error descriptions.  It is far, far better
> for the upper layer to help out a bit, and insert a space and/or comma
> for the LLDD.  After all, the LLDD might not be the only one printing
> error messages at that time; the upper layer might also wish to do so in
> the same dmesg line.

Okay then, I guess it's __ata_ehi_push_desc()/ata_ehi_push_desc() time,
where the prefixed one is the raw one and the latter one is with
automatic "<> " added.  Will fix.

-- 
tejun
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