Re: [PATCH 0/6] drivers/ide Convert printk(KERN_<foo> to pr_<foo>(

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 08:41 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 16:12 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > On Monday 18 May 2009 04:21:08 Joe Perches wrote:
> > > Mostly mechanical conversion of printk's
> > Hmm.. less mechanical conversion using also dev_*() macros where suitable
> > would be much better...
> > How's about fixing pr_devel() which currently doesn't seem to be used
> > by anything inside kernel to not depend on DEBUG in separate pre-patch
> > and then using it instead of pr_debug()?
> 
> How about deferring the "printk(KERN_DEBUG" to something else
> and doing the mechanical conversion to core as a first pass,
> followed by core pr_<foo> to dev_<foo> where appropriate
> as a second pass?

What exactly is the point of a mechanical conversion from
printk(KERN_ ...) to pr_...?

I can see the value of the pr_ macros from new code in that the
temptation to put a comma after KERN_.. for some people is irresistible
so it's an interface that's very easy to misuse, but given that we have
correct uses, why convert them?

James