Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:27:17 +0300 | From | Dan Carpenter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] Staging: Comedi: dyna_pci10xx: Replace printk with dev_info |
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On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 04:46:02PM +0200, Bruce Humphrey wrote: > Thanks for all the comments! > > My own answers are from the complete linux kernel newbie point of view! > That's why I'm writing them even if they seem obvious, to make sure. > > > data[n] = 0; > > > - printk(KERN_DEBUG "comedi: dyna_pci10xx: " > > > - "timeout reading analog input\n"); > > > + dev_dbg(dev->class_dev, "timeout reading analog input\n"); > > > > The trick with removing the "comedi: dyna_pci10xx: " prefix is that > > you need to put this at the top of the file before the includes. > > > > #define pr_fmt(fmt) "comedi: dyna_pci10xx: " fmt > > > > You would need to remove the prefix from the other pr_info printk > > as well so it's not included twice. > > > > Thanks for the very useful info! > This would use pr_info, and not dev_info, which I think is prefered. But of > course, pr_info is much better than printk, coding style wise. >
Sorry, for some reason I thought there was an existing pr_info() in the file which would have needed to be updated. I'm not sure what I was looking at...
Anyway, this file has changed recently in linux-next so there is only one printk() left now.
regards, dan carpenter
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