[alsa-devel] [PATCH 00/48] Rewrite kernel messages with standard printk helpers

[Raymond Yau]

> > Hi,
> > >
> > > this is another long series of patches for trivial cleanups.
> > > This time, they replace the printk and snd_print*() calls in ALSA PCI
> > > and USB drivers with dev_err() and co.  This will give nicer and more
> > > consistent outputs.
> > >
> > > The only drawback by these replacements is that alsa-info.sh won't be
> > > able to catch the dmesg lines because it doesn't contain any longer
> > > the word "ALSA", but only show the module name like "snd_intel8x0".
> > >
> > > I'm going to fix alsa-info.sh on git soon later, but if you guys think
> > > "oh no it's disaster!", let me know.  We need to reconsider a better
> > > way to put the known markers (like explicitly putting "ALSA" at the
> > > beginning.)
> > >
> > >
> > seem missing au88x0
>
> Yes, because some driver codes are horrible to work on.
> Patches are welcome.
>
> > can the driver build as modules in kernel 3.11 (ubuntu 13.10) ?
>
> The dev_err() and co exist since ages ago, so it shouldn't be a
> problem.  These patches, however, need the previous change of
> snd_card_new() to make the device pointer available in time.
>
> No idea about Ubuntu.
>
>
it seem usb-audio failed to build as module since last year

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/commit/?id=80ab8eae70e51d578ebbeb228e0f7a562471b8b7


all the drivers related to the above patch were no longer build as module
any more



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