[PATCH] sound: aoa: printk replacement

[Sudip Mukherjee]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 04:43:03PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Wed, 10 Sep 2014 20:02:04 +0530,
> Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 03:57:04PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 19:21 +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > > > as pr_* macros are more preffered over printk, so printk replaced
> > > > with corresponding pr_* macros.
> > > 
> > > Are you simply running checkpatch on every file and decided to do
> > > something about it? :)
> > > 
> > i am running checkpatch on the patch generated. if i am doing checkpatch
> > cleanups then that i do it only in the staging.
> > only exception : printk .. :)
> > 
> > > I'll let Takashi decide whether to take this or not as I no longer care
> > > about this code, but IMHO this changes is completely pointless since you
> > > don't also clean up the code to have a common prefix with #define pr_fmt
> > > and then clean up the callers etc.
> > > 
> > i mentioned in the comment that in a future patch we can have pr_fmt,
> > it was not done in this patch since the changes for this patch is
> > generated by a script and not manually.
> > if Takashi accepts this then the next patch will have pr_fmt.
> 
> If you're going to work on it, please give a patch series and let me
> merge once.  There is no good merit to merge a half-baked piece by
> piece.
> 
> Regarding the changes you've made: so far, I've merged two such
> patches just because it's a good exercise for newbies.  You've played
> it and experienced it enough.  So it's time to go up to a higher
> stage, more "real" fixes.
can you please give me some hint of fixes that can be attempted by
newbies. except printk :)
so far i have started with fixing the sparse warnings in staging.

> 
> For example, if you are still interested in printk stuff, try to
> change the calls to dev_err() and co.  Of course, this needs more
> understanding of the code you'll handle, which object is passed for
> which messages.
> 
sure , i will send you this one.

thanks
sudip


> 
> thanks,
> 
> Takashi