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From: "Anirban Sinha" <ASinha@zeugmasystems.com>
To: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] cleanup legacy console_print function
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:18:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DDFD17CC94A9BD49A82147DDF7D545C501F0FEBC@exchange.ZeugmaSystems.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0909140749300.3654@localhost.localdomain>


>On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Anirban Sinha wrote:
>>
>> -           console_print(text); \
>> -           console_print("\n"); \
>> +           printk(KERN_EMERG "%s", text);      \
>> +           printk(KERN_EMERG "\n");            \
>
>Just clean it up to be
>
>	printk(KERN_EMERG "%s\n", text);
>
>instead while at it.
>
>>  #define TRACE_CHR(chr) \
>>  	{ \
>>  	  if(dtlk_trace) \
>> -	    console_print(chr); \
>> +	    printk(KERN_EMERG "%c", chr); \
>
>That can't be right. The translation is to use "%s", not "%c".

Better still, for both the above cases, I will simply remove those macro
definitions. They are enclosed within {#if0 #endif}, so no code could
possibly be using it. If anyone has any strong reasons for keeping it
still, please raise your voice now.

Cheers,

Ani


  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-14 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-25 23:47 [PATCH] console_print: change the function api to make it have printk style interface Anirban Sinha
2009-08-26  0:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-26  0:28   ` Anirban Sinha
2009-08-26  0:39     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-26  0:57       ` Anirban Sinha
2009-08-26  0:26 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-08-26 20:05   ` Anirban Sinha
2009-08-27 19:34     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-27 21:36       ` Anirban Sinha
2009-09-11 19:29       ` [PATCH] cleanup legacy console_print function Anirban Sinha
2009-09-14 14:50         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-14 17:18           ` Anirban Sinha [this message]
2009-09-14 18:28 Anirban Sinha
2009-09-15 17:27 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2009-09-15 17:55   ` Anirban Sinha
2009-09-15 18:00     ` Tony Luck
2009-09-15 18:05       ` Anirban Sinha
2009-09-15 18:11         ` Luck, Tony
2009-09-15 18:25           ` Anirban Sinha
2009-09-15 18:39             ` Tony Luck
2009-09-15 19:08               ` Anirban Sinha
2009-09-15 15:54 Anirban Sinha

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