Re: [PATCH] drm: Replace DRM_INFO() with pr_info()

[Thomas Zimmermann]

Hi

Am 19.12.22 um 16:34 schrieb Siddh Raman Pant:
> On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 20:27:45 +0530, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Am 19.12.22 um 15:23 schrieb Siddh Raman Pant:
> > > Line 536 of drm_print.h says DRM_INFO() is deprecated
> > > in favor of pr_info().
> >
> > That's a misleading comment. DRM_INFO() is deprecated for drm_info().
> > pr_info() et al is only to be used of you don't have a dev pointer.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Thomas
>
> Maybe you are confusing it with DRM_DEV_INFO? It takes the dev pointer,
> and is indeed told to be deprecated in favour of drm_info() in the
> comments (see line 394).
>
> DRM_INFO is a separate macro for printing stuff, and does not take the
> dev pointer. They seem to be early wrappers for printk, I guess when
> pr_info did not exist. And all they do different from pr_info is to add
> DRM_NAME (which seems to be just "drm") in front of the string.

The DRM_ print macros in capital letters are deprecated AFAIK. In cases 
where a dev pointer is available, using drm_info() et al. is preferred 
over pr_info().

In the context of your patch, you should use drm_info() in 
drm_client_target_cloned(), as is gets a dev pointer as its first 
argument. In most the other cases from your patch, you can get the dev 
pointer from connector->dev.

The final case, drm_legacy_pci_exit(), there's no dev pointer, so you 
can use pr_info() there. I'd remove '[drm]' from the string. We don't 
use this much elsewhere.

Best regards
Thomas

> Thanks,
> Siddh

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