On Thu, 2015-08-27 at 18:30 -0700, Gregory Fong wrote: > If you ever do more of these, here are a few trivial style notes: > diff --git a/arch/mips/bcm63xx/boards/board_bcm963xx.c b/arch/mips/bcm63xx/boards/board_bcm963xx.c > +#define pr_fmt(fmt) "board_bcm963xx: " fmt Using: #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt is more common > @@ -740,7 +741,7 @@ int bcm63xx_get_fallback_sprom(struct ssb_bus *bus, struct ssb_sprom *out) > memcpy(out, &bcm63xx_sprom, sizeof(struct ssb_sprom)); > return 0; > } else { > - printk(KERN_ERR PFX "unable to fill SPROM for given bustype.\n"); > + pr_err("unable to fill SPROM for given bustype.\n"); The periods at the end of logging lines are generally superfluous and can be removed. > @@ -808,7 +809,7 @@ void __init board_prom_init(void) > char name[17]; > memcpy(name, board_name, 16); > name[16] = 0; > - printk(KERN_ERR PFX "unknown bcm963xx board: %s\n", > + pr_err("unknown bcm963xx board: %s\n", > name); It's nicer to unwrap lines where appropriate: pr_err("unknown bcm963xx board: %s\n", name); > diff --git a/arch/mips/bcm63xx/cpu.c b/arch/mips/bcm63xx/cpu.c [] > @@ -376,10 +376,10 @@ void __init bcm63xx_cpu_init(void) > bcm63xx_cpu_freq = detect_cpu_clock(); > bcm63xx_memory_size = detect_memory_size(); > > - printk(KERN_INFO "Detected Broadcom 0x%04x CPU revision %02x\n", > + pr_info("Detected Broadcom 0x%04x CPU revision %02x\n", > bcm63xx_cpu_id, bcm63xx_cpu_rev); It's nicer to reflow alignment for the entire statement to keep the subsequent line arguments at the open parenthesis: pr_info("Detected Broadcom 0x%04x CPU revision %02x\n", bcm63xx_cpu_id, bcm63xx_cpu_rev); > + pr_info("CPU frequency is %u MHz\n", > bcm63xx_cpu_freq / 1000000); pr_info("CPU frequency is %u MHz\n", bcm63xx_cpu_freq / 1000000); etc... > diff --git a/arch/mips/bcm63xx/timer.c b/arch/mips/bcm63xx/timer.c [] > @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ int bcm63xx_timer_init(void) > irq = bcm63xx_get_irq_number(IRQ_TIMER); > ret = request_irq(irq, timer_interrupt, 0, "bcm63xx_timer", NULL); > if (ret) { > - printk(KERN_ERR "bcm63xx_timer: failed to register irq\n"); > + pr_err("bcm63xx_timer: failed to register irq\n"); It's sometimes nicer to change embedded function names to use "%s: ", __func__ pr_err("%s: failed to register irq\n", __func__);