Re: [PATCH] watchdog: booke_wdt: clean up status messages

On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 15:29 -0600, Timur Tabi wrote:

Improve the status messages that are displayed during some operations of the
PowerPC watchdog timer driver.  When the watchdog is enabled, the timeout is
displayed as a number of seconds, instead of an obscure "period".  The "period"
is the position of a bit in a 64-bit timer register.  The higher the value,
the quicker the watchdog timeout occurs.  Some people chose a high "period"
value for the timer and get confused as to why the board resets within a
few seconds.

Messages displayed during open and close are now debug messages, so that they
don't clutter the console by default.  Finally, printk() is replaced with the
pr_xxx() equivalent.

Minor nit bu

 
-	printk(KERN_INFO "PowerPC Book-E Watchdog Timer Loaded\n");
+	pr_info("PowerPC Book-E Watchdog Timer Loaded\n");
 	ident.firmware_version = cur_cpu_spec->pvr_value;
 
 	ret = misc_register(&booke_wdt_miscdev);
 	if (ret) {
-		printk(KERN_CRIT "Cannot register miscdev on minor=%d: %d\n",
-				WATCHDOG_MINOR, ret);
+		pr_err("booke_wdt: cannot register device (minor=%u, ret=%i)\n",
+		       WATCHDOG_MINOR, ret);
 		return ret;
 	}
 
 	spin_lock(&booke_wdt_lock);
 	if (booke_wdt_enabled == 1) {
-		printk(KERN_INFO
-		      "PowerPC Book-E Watchdog Timer Enabled (wdt_period=%d)\n",
-				booke_wdt_period);
+		pr_info("booke_wdt: watchdog enabled (timeout = %llu sec)\n",
+			period_to_sec(booke_wdt_period));
 		on_each_cpu(__booke_wdt_enable, NULL, 0);
 	}

If you're going to cleanup the messages, then I think displaying:

PowerPC Book-E Watchdog Timer Loaded
booke_wdt: watchdog enabled (timeout = xxx sec)

Isn't very nice.

Lacks consistency ... you can prefix both lines the same way, or
maybe better print only one line with all the necessary info.

Ben.