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Re: [PATCH 2/3] mwifiex: using general print function during device intialization

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Norris [mailto:briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 2017年4月4日 2:42
> To: Dmitry Torokhov
> Cc: Xinming Hu; Linux Wireless; Kalle Valo; Rajat Jain; Amitkumar Karwar; Cathy
> Luo; Xinming Hu
> Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH 2/3] mwifiex: using general print function during
> device intialization
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> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 03:46:58PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 2:19 AM, Xinming Hu <huxinming820@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > > From: Xinming Hu <huxm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > adapter->dev is initialized after mwifiex_register done, before that
> > > print message by general pr_* function
> >
> > No, we should move away from naked pr_*() as much as possible. Please
> > change  mwifiex_register() to accept "dev" parameter and assign
> > adapter->dev early enough so that the standard mwifiex_err() calls are
> > usable.
> 

Thanks for the review.

> Agreed. You mean like I did here? :)
> 
> ba1c7e45ec22 mwifiex: set adapter->dev before starting to use mwifiex_dbg()
> 
> That's in v4.11-rc4, partly as a bugfix to this:
> 
> 2e02b5814217 ("mwifiex: Allow mwifiex early access to device structure")
> 
> > Also consider changing _mwifiex_dbg() to handle cases when
> > adapter->dev is NULL and fall back to pr_<level>.
> 
> That'd be nice. It would have mitigated the problems of commit
> 2e02b5814217 too.
> 

Yes, this commit ba1c7e4 should be better and work for most cases, will enhance __mwifiex_dbg for adapter->dev NULL case in V2.

Thanks,
Simon

> Brian
> 
> > > Signed-off-by: Xinming Hu <huxm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c | 78
> > > ++++++++++++-----------------
> > > drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sdio.c |  3 +-
> > >  2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
> 
> [...]




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