[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 3/8] treewide: replace with error() with pr_err()

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Thu Sep 28 13:11:14 UTC 2017


On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 09:56:29PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> 
> 2017-09-28 21:43 GMT+09:00 Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>:
> > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 03:11:05PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> >> Hi Tom,
> >>
> >> 2017-09-16 14:10 GMT+09:00 Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>:
> >> > U-Boot widely uses error() as a bit noisier variant of printf().
> >> >
> >> > This macro causes name conflict with the following line in
> >> > include/linux/compiler-gcc.h:
> >> >
> >> >   # define __compiletime_error(message) __attribute__((error(message)))
> >> >
> >> > This prevents us from using __compiletime_error(), and makes it
> >> > difficult to fully sync BUILD_BUG macros with Linux.  (Notice
> >> > Linux's BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG is implemented by using compiletime_assert().)
> >> >
> >> > Let's convert error() into now treewide-available pr_err().
> >> >
> >> > Done with the help of Coccinelle, excluing tools/ directory.
> >> >
> >> > The semantic patch I used is as follows:
> >> >
> >> > // <smpl>
> >> > @@@@
> >> > -error
> >> > +pr_err
> >> >  (...)
> >> > // </smpl>
> >>
> >>
> >> Apparently, this is outdated already.
> >>
> >> Do you want me to update this?
> >> or will you run coccinelle by yourself?
> >
> > Well, that was my first time running coccinelle, and it was rather
> > painless.  So yes, I'm happy to re-generate any coccinelle generated
> > patches so long as the smpl is included in the commit message.  Thanks!
> >
> 
> 
> OK, I will not resend this series.
> This one is quite big, and would go to the moderator.
> 
> 
> One more request, if you will remember, would you fix my typo in the subject?
> 
> "replace with error() with pr_error()"
> 
> I noticed the first "with" was unneeded.

OK, will do.

-- 
Tom
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