Re: [PATCH] m68k/setup: Use pr_*() instead of plain printk()

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
>> diff --git a/arch/m68k/kernel/setup_mm.c b/arch/m68k/kernel/setup_mm.c
>
>> @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ static void __init m68k_parse_bootinfo(const struct bi_record *record)
> []
>> -                             printk("m68k_parse_bootinfo: too many memory chunks\n");
>> +                             pr_warn("m68k_parse_bootinfo: too many memory chunks\n");
>
> These are generally better written by
> removing the hand-written function name
> and using "%s: ", __func__
>
>                                 pr_warn("%s: too many memory chunks\n",
>                                         __func__);

I had tried that, too. But surprisingly (although the same function
name was in two
messages), it increased the size of the kernel image.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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