On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 19:52 +0100, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:52:43PM +0530, Niranjan Dighe wrote: > > Replace string directly in place of format string and remove pointer > > variable which was used just once. [] > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c > > b/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c [] > > @@ -3046,7 +3045,8 @@ static int slic_entry_probe(struct pci_dev *pcidev, > > return err; > > > > if (did_version++ == 0) { > > - dev_info(&pcidev->dev, "%s\n", slic_banner); > > + dev_info(&pcidev->dev, > > + "Alacritech SLIC Technology(tm) Server and Storage Accelerator > > (Non-Accelerated)\n"); > > Why make this change? What's wrong with the original code? > > There is the issue that driver should be quiet, so really, you can just > delete all of this nonsense, but that's a different issue here...
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