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From: David Miller on 10 Jul 2010 23:00
From: Joe Perches <joe(a)perches.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:13:42 -0700

> On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 18:18 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> It looks like there are just a hand-ful of cases, so maybe we can tweak
>> them by hand. For example, in the sym53c8xx_2 driver bits we can replace
>> the NULL labels passed to sym_print_msg() with a real string and therefore
>> remove the "" case.
>>
>> Joe, any better ideas?
>
> You're right there are just a few cases where dev_info
> is uses as a preface for a hex_dump style display.
>
> Maybe it'd be OK to simply add a trailing space to the
> preface and remove any leading spaces from the subsequent
> initial printks.
>
> dev_info(dev, " ");

That might work.

The sym53c8xx_2 doesn't even need this, like I said, you could
just remove the NULL 'label' argument cases and then have that
bit cured.

Could you take a stab at this and the other scsi bits that
trigger this warning?

Thanks Joe!
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