[alsa-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Kill the rest snd_print*() usages

Sudip Mukherjee sudipm.mukherjee at gmail.com
Sat Nov 1 14:15:40 CET 2014


On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 06:31:23PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Fri, 31 Oct 2014 18:15:36 +0530,
> Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 05:45:12PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > it's a small series to get rid of snd_print*() usages in a few
> > > PCI sound drivers.  There remain still a few, I know, but this is
> > > just a matter of cleanup, so let them be there...
> > 
> > hi,
> > still there is approx. 723 usages of snd_printk (including snd_printk in comments),
> > and including 46 in PCI.
> > shall i do the cleanups for you ?
> 
> Only you have really free time and gut :)
> The problem is rather inconsistencies, i.e. if the same module has a
> mix of dev_*() and snd_printk() (or snd_printd()), they should be
> replaced as well.  If not mixed, we can leave as is for now.
> 
i am having one doubt. I saw in your patch you have replaced snd_printdd with dev_dbg
and snd_printd with dev_info.
but when i am checking the macro of snd_printd or snd_printdd , i see that they are also
printing the file and line along with the message. snd_printddd is also doing the same thing.
then while replacing them with dev_*, the file and line are not required ?

thanks
sudip


> snd_printdd() is a slight different story.  It's really a debug print,
> so do it only when easily possible.
> 
> 
> Takashi


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