From: Yogesh Chaudhari <mr.yogesh@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 21:49:23 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: checkpatch.pl: modify warning message for printk usage
X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=daa8b0592ee062583b2532bf62450c15fbcc7f98;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2FG12%2Fandroid_kernel_amlogic_linux-4.9.git

checkpatch.pl: modify warning message for printk usage

Modify warning message when printk is used in a patch.  It mentions to
use subsystem_dbg instead of netdev_dbg as the first preferred format of
logging debug messages.

Signed-off-by: Yogesh Chaudhari <mr.yogesh@gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index f0ea8a037a6d..3d3ef2ff62b2 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2833,7 +2833,7 @@ sub process {
 			my $level2 = $level;
 			$level2 = "dbg" if ($level eq "debug");
 			WARN("PREFER_PR_LEVEL",
-			     "Prefer netdev_$level2(netdev, ... then dev_$level2(dev, ... then pr_$level(...  to printk(KERN_$orig ...\n" . $herecurr);
+			     "Prefer [subsystem eg: netdev]_$level2([subsystem]dev, ... then dev_$level2(dev, ... then pr_$level(...  to printk(KERN_$orig ...\n" . $herecurr);
 		}
 
 		if ($line =~ /\bpr_warning\s*\(/) {