On Friday 15 June 2012 15:53:28 Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:06:30AM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:57:36PM +0200, Marc Dietrich wrote:
> > > Replace a printk in nvec core driver with dev_warn.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Marc Dietrich <[email protected]>
> > > ---
> > > - printk(KERN_WARNING "unhandled msg type %ld\n", event_type);
> > > + dev_warn(nvec->dev, "unhandled msg type %ld\n", event_type);
> > > 
> > >   print_hex_dump(KERN_WARNING, "payload: ", DUMP_PREFIX_NONE, 16, 1,
> > >   
> > >           msg, msg[1] + 2, true);
> > 
> > Is this stuff sensible at all? Now we have two lines, the first is
> > prefixed with the device, the second not, but both belong together.
> 
> I really want a dev_hex_dump() function, which can then get split up
> into dev_hex_dump_warn(), dev_hex_dump_dbg() and the like.  If we had
> that, it could be used here, as well as a number of other places in the
> kernel.
> 
> Anyone want to work on this?

Well, I can look at it, but first I need to get this stuff right ;-) 
@Julien: pr_warn is the alternative here, but I think dev_warn is perfered in 
cases we can get the module device struct - right?

Marc


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