Re: [PATCH v2] fix printk output

From: Sergei Ianovich
Date: Tue Dec 10 2013 - 02:29:46 EST


On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 15:59 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Sergei Ianovich <ynvich@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Hmm, the copy here is gratuitous. Using current->comm is safe, just
> possibly ambigious if someone is changing the task name at the same time.
>
> And we really want this one line anyway:
>
> printk(KERN_WARNING
> "%s: waiting module removal not supported: please upgrade\n",
> current->comm);

I would put tool's name in the end for clarity. Message comes from the
kernel and the kernel recommends to upgrade the tool. "%s: ..." could
make the impression that the tool recommends to upgrade the kernel.

> BTW, did you actually hit this?

# modprobe usb_storage
[ 600.807274] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
# modprobe -r usb_storage
[ 604.216318] waiting module removal not supported: please upgrade[
604.222164] usbcore: deregistering interface driver usb-storage
# modprobe -V
kmod version 9

I am using the latest kmod package from emdebian unstable-grip.

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