Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [ipw3945-devel] [PATCH 1/1] iwlwifi: fix printk newlines | From | Marcel Holtmann <> | Date | Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:11:58 +0200 |
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Hi Yi,
> > > We should give the users more control to the style I think. > > > > what kind of control do you expect? If you need two lines of debug or > > error output, call IWL_ERROR twice. This will also result in the > > KERN_ERR is set and not forgotten since that has to follow the > > newline. > > I thought sometimes we might not need a new line between two IWL_ERRORs. > But your KERN_ERR garbaging the output in this case is correct. I think > when we wrote the macro, we just follow the style of dev_info() ... > dev_emerg() macros. Do you know why there is not a new line for them by > default?
I have no idea. Maybe because they are close to printk. I always put the newline into my macros.
Regards
Marcel
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