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| author | Yogesh Chaudhari <mr.yogesh@gmail.com> | 2014-04-03 14:49:23 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-04-03 16:21:14 -0700 |
| commit | daa8b0592ee062583b2532bf62450c15fbcc7f98 (patch) | |
| tree | e06a7e2c7510a46858b7c17b517404577c0a0057 /scripts | |
| parent | 5b9553abfc97f923b99868a04c3b3d99a6014163 (diff) | |
checkpatch.pl: modify warning message for printk usage
Modify warning message when printk is used in a patch. It mentions to
use subsystem_dbg instead of netdev_dbg as the first preferred format of
logging debug messages.
Signed-off-by: Yogesh Chaudhari <mr.yogesh@gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index f0ea8a037a6d..3d3ef2ff62b2 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2833,7 +2833,7 @@ sub process { my $level2 = $level; $level2 = "dbg" if ($level eq "debug"); WARN("PREFER_PR_LEVEL", - "Prefer netdev_$level2(netdev, ... then dev_$level2(dev, ... then pr_$level(... to printk(KERN_$orig ...\n" . $herecurr); + "Prefer [subsystem eg: netdev]_$level2([subsystem]dev, ... then dev_$level2(dev, ... then pr_$level(... to printk(KERN_$orig ...\n" . $herecurr); } if ($line =~ /\bpr_warning\s*\(/) { |