On 02.03.20 20:39, Joe Perches wrote: > On Mon, 2020-03-02 at 20:29 +0100, Helge Deller wrote: >> On 28.02.20 09:32, Joe Perches wrote: >>> Some of the logging can be poorly formatted because of unexpected >>> line breaks given printks without KERN_CONT that should be pr_cont. > [] >>> diff --git a/drivers/parport/parport_gsc.c b/drivers/parport/parport_gsc.c > [] >>> @@ -238,14 +238,14 @@ struct parport *parport_gsc_probe_port(unsigned long base, >>> >>> priv = kzalloc (sizeof (struct parport_gsc_private), GFP_KERNEL); >>> if (!priv) { >>> - printk (KERN_DEBUG "parport (0x%lx): no memory!\n", base); >>> + printk(KERN_DEBUG "parport (0x%lx): no memory!\n", base); >> >> pr_warn() instead? > > For all of your remarks, the intent here is to keep the > same output. Ok. > Logging level changes and printk(KERN_DEBUG -> pr_debug( > conversions cause the dmesg output to be different. > > printk(KERN_DEBUG...) > > is always emitted when the console level allows but > > pr_debug(...) > > is not normally compiled in at all. > > So it's possible for all printk(KERN_DEBUG to be pr_debug > but that causes no logging at all to be emitted when > DEBUG is not defined or CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG not enabled. Ok, then keep it as you had. Thanks! Helge