Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 17/20] iommu/tegra: gart: Prepend error/debug messages with "GART:" | From | Dmitry Osipenko <> | Date | Mon, 24 Sep 2018 21:09:36 +0300 |
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On 9/24/18 1:57 PM, Thierry Reding wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 03:41:50AM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote: >> GART became a part of Memory Controller, hence now the drivers device >> is Memory Controller and not GART. As a result all printed messages are >> prepended with the "tegra-mc 7000f000.memory-controller:", so let's >> prepend GART's messages with "GART:" in order to differentiate them >> from the MC. >> >> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com> >> --- >> drivers/iommu/tegra-gart.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++------------------ >> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) > > There's a macro called dev_fmt (similar to pr_fmt) to do this for dev_* > printers. Also I think this would be more readable if the prefix was > "gart: " rather than "GART: ". At least from my personal experience I > get easily distracted by all-caps words in logs, because they usually > indicate something that requires immediate attention. I think it's > better to leave that up to higher level mechanisms, such as the color > keying of messages based on level by tools like dmesg.
The dev_fmt is a new thing, thank you for pointing at it. I'll try to switch to dev_fmt and lower the text case.
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