Re: [ipw3945-devel] [PATCH 1/1] iwlwifi: fix printk newlines

[Marcel Holtmann]

Hi Yi,

> > > We should give the users more control to the style I think.
> > 
> > what kind of control do you expect? If you need two lines of debug or
> > error output, call IWL_ERROR twice. This will also result in the
> > KERN_ERR is set and not forgotten since that has to follow the
> > newline.
> 
> I thought sometimes we might not need a new line between two IWL_ERRORs.
> But your KERN_ERR garbaging the output in this case is correct. I think
> when we wrote the macro, we just follow the style of dev_info() ...
> dev_emerg() macros. Do you know why there is not a new line for them by
> default?

I have no idea. Maybe because they are close to printk. I always put the
newline into my macros.

Regards

Marcel


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