linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] Introduce FW_BUG and FW_INFO to consistenly tell users about BIOS bugs

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Date:	Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:27:09 +0200
From:	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
To:	ak@...ux.intel.com
Cc:	bjorn.helgaas@...com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	arjan@...ux.intel.com, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	ckornacker@...e.de, Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Introduce FW_BUG and FW_INFO to consistenly tell users about BIOS bugs

The idea is to add this to printk after the severity:
printk(KERN_ERR FW_BUG "This is not our fault\n");

If a Firmware issue should be hidden, because it is
work-arounded, but you still want to see something popping up e.g.
for info only:
printk(KERN_INFO FW_INFO "This is done stupid, we can handle it,
but it should better be avoided in future\n");

or on the Linuxfirmwarekit to tell vendors that they did something
stupid or wrong without bothering the user:
printk(KERN_INFO FW_BUG "This is done stupid, we can handle it,
but it should better be avoided in future\n");

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
---
 include/linux/kernel.h |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 2651f80..68ebfc2 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -190,6 +190,9 @@ extern int kernel_text_address(unsigned long addr);
 struct pid;
 extern struct pid *session_of_pgrp(struct pid *pgrp);
 
+#define FW_BUG		"[FW Bug]: "
+#define FW_INFO		"[FW Info]: "
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
 asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
 	__attribute__ ((format (printf, 1, 0)));
-- 
1.5.4.5

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