RE: [PATCH for-next] iw_cxgb4: Change error/warn prints to pr_debug

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> 
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 03:12:01PM -0600, Steve Wise wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 04:14:16PM +0530, Potnuri Bharat Teja wrote:
> > > > @@ -64,12 +64,6 @@
> > > >  #define DRV_NAME "iw_cxgb4"
> > > >  #define MOD DRV_NAME ":"
> > > >
> > > > -#ifdef pr_fmt
> > > > -#undef pr_fmt
> > > > -#endif
> > > > -
> > > > -#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
> > > > -
> > >
> > > Lots of other places in RDMA set a prefix, can we come to some
agreement
> > if
> > > we
> > > should drop or keep this unverisally?
> >
> > Either way we go, pr_fmt being redefined screws up pr_debug() which
> > optionally prepends the function, line, module names depending on the
> > dynamic debug settings.  You end up with the module name embedded in the
> > middle of the log statement, and duplicated with +m is used.  That is
why
> > Bharat removed it from iw_cxgb4.
> >
> > In general, I like module names in log statements, but we just need to
do it
> > the right way to avoid the pr_debug issue...
> 
> Seems like a bigger problem than for linux-rdma?
> 

If redefining pr_fmt is actually the preferred way to add module names, then
I think pr_debug() might need
to be fixed.

> Shouldn't many of these prints be using dev_* stuff and be prefixed
> with their device name?

Yea, that makes sense.

steve


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