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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2 v3] Staging: comedi: fix printk() issue in adv_pci1710.c
On 19/07/11 16:12, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 04:07:27PM +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote:
>> This still isn't correct. The initial printk (KERN_INFO above) has
>> no trailing newline. Here you are almost doing it correctly, except
>> that you are adding an extra newline. This error message will look
>> like this:
>>
>> comedi0: adv_pci1710:
>> comedi0: adv_pci1710: Allocation failed
>>
> Actually kmalloc() prints an message with a stack trace on failure as
> well so that would go in the middle, just before the first newline.
>

Thanks. Didn't know that. Is that a KConfig option or by default?

Either way, it's another good reason to get rid of all the KERN_CONT
stuff in the driver.

~Ryan


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