Code Style issue

[Kristofer Hallin]

Short answer: Use pr_debug instead of printk.
On 5 Apr 2014 07:06, "HABI S RAVI" <habisbc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I am trying to fix a coding issue . I get the following warning when my
> module is checked with checkpatch.pl.
> How can i remove the warning. I see a lot of drivers using printk()
> function.
>
> $ perl ~/linux-stable/scripts/checkpatch.pl -f hello.c
> WARNING: Prefer netdev_dbg(netdev, ... then dev_dbg(dev, ... then
> pr_debug(...  to printk(KERN_DEBUG ...
> #6: FILE: hello.c:6:
> +       printk(KERN_DEBUG "Hello World!\n");
>
> WARNING: Prefer netdev_dbg(netdev, ... then dev_dbg(dev, ... then
> pr_debug(...  to printk(KERN_DEBUG ...
> #12: FILE: hello.c:12:
> +       printk(KERN_DEBUG "hello module unloaded\n");
>
>
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