On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Ravishankar wrote:

> From: Ravishankar <[email protected]>
> 
> This is a patch to the das16m1.c file that fixes up a printk() warning found 
> by the checkpatch.pl tool
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ravishankar <[email protected]>
> ---
> 
>  After understanding code I have changed  8 printk statement in int 
> das16m1_attach function. 
> 
>  drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das16m1.c |   16 +++++++++-------
>  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das16m1.c 
> b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das16m1.c
> index efc6132..d737ed2 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das16m1.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das16m1.c
> @@ -680,17 +680,19 @@ static int das16m1_attach(struct comedi_device *dev,
>  
>       dev->board_name = thisboard->name;
>  
> -     printk(" io 0x%lx-0x%lx 0x%lx-0x%lx",
> +     printk(KERN_INFO " requesing the I/O region from 0x%lx-0x%lx 
> 0x%lx-0x%lx",

Correct spelling is "requesting" and the "from" should either have a 
matching "to" or just be dropped IMHO.

Personally I'd just make it:
" requesting I/O region 0x%lx-0x%lx 0x%lx-0x%lx"


>              iobase, iobase + DAS16M1_SIZE,
>              iobase + DAS16M1_82C55, iobase + DAS16M1_82C55 + DAS16M1_SIZE2);
>       if (!request_region(iobase, DAS16M1_SIZE, driver_das16m1.driver_name)) {
> -             printk(" I/O port conflict\n");
> -             return -EIO;
> +             printk(KERN_INFO "the IO REGION is busy, quitting\n");
> +             return -EBUSY;
>       }
>       if (!request_region(iobase + DAS16M1_82C55, DAS16M1_SIZE2,
>                           driver_das16m1.driver_name)) {
>               release_region(iobase, DAS16M1_SIZE);
> -             printk(" I/O port conflict\n");
> +             printk(KERN_INFO " releasing  the I/O port region\n");

I think the original text was better.


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