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Date:   Wed, 18 Oct 2023 07:49:22 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
To:     Soumya Negi <soumya.negi97@gmail.com>
cc:     Martyn Welch <martyn@welchs.me.uk>,
        Manohar Vanga <manohar.vanga@gmail.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] staging: vme_user: Replace printk's & cleanup log
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On Tue, 17 Oct 2023, Soumya Negi wrote:

> Staging driver vme_user has a bunch of printk() calls in vme.c which
> triggers checkpatch warnings. Remove all printk's and change them to
> the appropriate logging mechanism i.e pr_err()/pr_warn(), or
> dev_err()/dev_warn().
>
> Also, cleanup the messages further by using __func__ in the string
> instead of function names.

"cleanup" is not actually a verb.  It's a noun.  The verb would be clean
up.

julia

>
> This patchset fixes all checkpatch warnings like:
>
>     WARNING: Prefer [subsystem eg: netdev]_err([subsystem]dev, ... then
>              dev_err(dev, ... then pr_err(...  to printk(KERN_ERR ...
> &
>     WARNING: Prefer using '"%s...", __func__' to using 'vme_lm_get',
>              this function's name, in a string
>
> Patches must be applied in order.
>
> Soumya Negi (2):
>   staging: vme_user: Replace printk() with pr_*(),dev_*()
>   staging: vme_user: Use __func__ instead of function name
>
>  drivers/staging/vme_user/vme.c | 175 ++++++++++++++++++---------------
>  1 file changed, 94 insertions(+), 81 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.42.0
>
>
>