On Thu, 2020-04-09 at 09:24 +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote: > I think that, at least printk(), WARN() and co, and panic() should also > be handled the same way. Maybe. > A few files (5 according to my grep) also have something like: > #define pr_fmt(fmt) "bcache: %s()" fmt "\n", __func__ > and then sometimes a mix of pr_xxx() with either trailing \n or not. Didn't know about those. > Maybe those should be handled manually to be consistent and avoid a "\n" > in pr_fmt which is not widely used in other files More likely the pr_fmt should have the \n removed and added to the uses. $ git grep -P 'define\s+pr_fmt.*\\n' drivers/clocksource/timer-davinci.c:#define pr_fmt(fmt) "%s: " fmt "\n", __func__ drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h:#define pr_fmt(fmt) "bcache: %s() " fmt "\n", __func__ drivers/md/bcache/bset.c:#define pr_fmt(fmt) "bcache: %s() " fmt "\n", __func__ lib/math/prime_numbers.c:#define pr_fmt(fmt) "prime numbers: " fmt "\n" lib/percpu-refcount.c:#define pr_fmt(fmt) "%s: " fmt "\n", __func__ lib/test_hash.c:#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt "\n" tools/usb/usbip/libsrc/usbip_common.h:#define pr_fmt(fmt) "%s: %s: " fmt "\n", PROGNAME