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

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sat, 1 Nov 2014 18:45:40 +0530,
Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> 
> 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 ?

Pretty depends on the situation.  When the printed text is unique, the
file and the line are mostly superfluous.  If there are multiple
similar messages, they have to be modified somehow to be easily
identifiable.


Takashi