From: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
p_gortmaker@yahoo.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac8390: fix pr_info() calls and change return code
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:57:34 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1004162340370.271@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1271392454.2298.37.camel@Joe-Laptop.home>
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, Joe Perches wrote:
> ...Why is it better to use -EBUSY?
Nubus slots are geographically addressed and their irqs are equally
inflexible. -EAGAIN is misleading because retrying will not help fix
whatever bug caused the irq to unavailable.
> ...It'd be better to prefix this with the driver name
> or use something like netdev_dbg with #define DEBUG
> otherwise it's "huh? what device emits this message?"
> when reading the logs.
>
> Something like:
> printk(KERN_DEBUG pr_fmt("reset not supported\n"));
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll resend again.
> ...unnecessary conversion.
I guess some prefer consistency, some prefer symmetry.
Finn
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-16 13:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-16 2:34 another cleanup patch gone wrong Finn Thain
2010-04-16 3:01 ` David Miller
2010-04-16 3:45 ` [PATCH] mac8390: fix pr_info() calls, was " Finn Thain
2010-04-16 3:54 ` Joe Perches
2010-04-16 3:59 ` Finn Thain
2010-04-16 4:21 ` [PATCH] mac8390: fix pr_info() calls and change return code Finn Thain
2010-04-16 4:34 ` Joe Perches
2010-04-16 13:57 ` Finn Thain [this message]
2010-04-16 20:28 ` David Miller
2010-04-17 2:28 ` Finn Thain
2010-04-16 5:53 ` David Miller
2010-04-16 14:14 ` [PATCH] mac8390: change an error return code and some cleanup Finn Thain
2010-04-17 3:16 ` [PATCH] mac8390: change an error return code and some cleanup, take 3 Finn Thain
2010-04-21 23:30 ` David Miller
2010-04-22 1:13 ` Finn Thain
2010-05-28 17:29 ` [PATCH] mac8390: change an error return code and some cleanup, take 4 Finn Thain
2010-05-31 7:19 ` David Miller
2010-05-31 9:21 ` fthain
2010-05-31 9:58 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-05-31 11:07 ` fthain
2010-05-31 11:30 ` David Miller
2010-05-31 12:55 ` Finn Thain
2010-05-31 13:02 ` David Miller
2010-06-01 12:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] mac8390: propagate error code from request_irq Finn Thain
2010-06-02 12:17 ` David Miller
2010-06-01 12:18 ` [PATCH 2/2] mac8390: raise error logging priority Finn Thain
2010-06-02 14:06 ` David Miller
2010-06-02 15:36 ` Finn Thain
2010-05-31 15:08 ` [PATCH] mac8390: change an error return code and some cleanup, take 4 Joe Perches
2010-05-31 15:14 ` David Miller
2010-05-31 15:19 ` Finn Thain
2010-05-31 11:27 ` David Miller
2010-04-16 3:11 ` another cleanup patch gone wrong Joe Perches
2010-04-16 3:21 ` Finn Thain
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