linux-kernel - Re: sched: restore sanity

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Date:	Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:36:56 -0800
From:	San Mehat <san@...gle.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sched: restore sanity

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 07:05 -0800, San Mehat wrote:
>> >> Probably, but the rest is just as annoying, pr_* is crap.
>
>> Oh? Out of curiosity whats wrong with it?
>
> That's what should be asked of printk().
>
> And as long as we're not going to depricate printk() -- any attempt
> thereof will meet with fierce resistance from yours truly -- its all a
> futile exercise at best, and breaking scripts habits and patches at
> worst.
>
> I might be strange, but if I want to print something in C I write
> print[fk]() and be done with it, there's no reason what so ever to
> introduce fancy wankery for this.
>
> We try to stick to ANSI-C as much as possible, we've got
> kalloc,kfree,strcmp,strnlen and all the other 'regular' C bits,
> deviating from that serves no purpose but seed confusion.
>

Fair enough, thanks for the clarification.

-san

> If driver folks feel the need for dumb-ass wrappers because they can't
> write printk() then maybe, otoh if they can't do that, then wtf are they
> doing writing drivers anyway.
>
> But I feel this has no place in the core kernel at all, esp when its
> getting in the way of things without offering a single benefit.
>
>
>
>



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