From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759606Ab2IKPT3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:19:29 -0400 Received: from perches-mx.perches.com ([206.117.179.246]:41585 "EHLO labridge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759157Ab2IKPT2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:19:28 -0400 Message-ID: <1347376767.3985.7.camel@joe2Laptop> Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: Update suggested printk conversions From: Joe Perches To: Andrew Morton , Andy Whitcroft Cc: Greg KH , Dan Carpenter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 08:19:27 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20120911025252.GA28112@kroah.com> References: <1347331815-7278-1-git-send-email-brucehum@gmail.com> <20120911025252.GA28112@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Direct conversion of printk(KERN_... to pr_ isn't the preferred conversion when a struct net_device or struct device is available. Hint that using netdev_ or dev_ is preferred to using pr_. Add netdev_dbg and dev_dbg variants too. Miscellaneous whitespace neatening of a misplaced close brace. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++-- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index ca05ba2..e1f4390 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ sub top_of_kernel_tree { } } return 1; - } +} sub parse_email { my ($formatted_email) = @_; @@ -2390,8 +2390,10 @@ sub process { my $orig = $1; my $level = lc($orig); $level = "warn" if ($level eq "warning"); + my $level2 = $level; + $level2 = "dbg" if ($level eq "debug"); WARN("PREFER_PR_LEVEL", - "Prefer pr_$level(... to printk(KERN_$1, ...\n" . $herecurr); + "Prefer netdev_$level2(netdev, ... then dev_$level2(dev, ... then pr_$level(... to printk(KERN_$orig ...\n" . $herecurr); } if ($line =~ /\bpr_warning\s*\(/) {