Re: [PATCHv2] usb: gadget: serial: replace hardcoded ttyGS with PREFIX

[Richard Leitner <richard.leitner@skidata.com>]

Hi,

On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 09:08:01 +0000
David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> wrote:

> > > From: Of Richard Leitner
> > > > Replaces all hardcoded ttyGS strings with the PREFIX macro.
> > > > Due to the fact the strings are spread over different source files the
> > > > PREFIX definition is moved to u_serial.h
> > >
> > > Lots of changes like:
> > > > -		DBG(cdev, "acm ttyGS%d completion, err %d\n",
> > > > -				acm->port_num, req->status);
> > > > +		DBG(cdev, "acm %s%d completion, err %d\n",
> > > > +				PREFIX, acm->port_num, req->status);
> > >
> > > I'm not sure this improves the code.
> > 
> > Maybe you're right, the readability of the code wouldn't be better afterwards,

but as I already mentioned IMHO if there is such a macro it should be used everywhere or nowhere...
	
> 
> Indeed it will make most attempts to grep for the error message fail.

So your thought is to carve it out completely?

Are there any other opinions/ideas on that?

regards,
richard