powerpc/fadump: trivial fix of spelling mistake, clean up message
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Mon Jun 27 21:20:27 AEST 2016
On Mon, 2016-06-27 at 03:51 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-06-27 at 11:38 +0100, Colin Ian King wrote:
> > On 26/06/16 05:19, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2016-24-06 at 17:43:00 UTC, Colin King wrote:
> > > > trivial fix to spelling mistake "rgistration" and minor clean up
> > > > of the printk error message
> > > Can you also:
> > > - use pr_err()
> > > - unsplit the message, ie. keep the string all on one line.
> > I can unsplit the string, but checkpatch will complain about that, so
> > I'm not sure if that's preferred or not.
> >
> > WARNING: line over 80 characters
>
> If the statement is wrapped after the format,
> then checkpatch shouldn't complain.
>
> pr_err("Failed to invalidate firmware-assisted dump registration. Unexpected error (%d).\n",
> rc);
But that's not actually any more readable, so just ignore checkpatch in this
case IMHO. It's a guide, not the gospel.
cheers
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