linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] printk: introduce should_ignore

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Date:	Sat, 25 Jun 2016 14:22:37 +0900
From:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:	Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Calvin Owens <calvinowens@...com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: introduce should_ignore_loglevel()

On (06/24/16 18:05), Petr Mladek wrote:
[..]
> > +static bool should_ignore_loglevel(int level)
> > +{
> > +	return (level >= console_loglevel && !ignore_loglevel);
> 
> The patch looks fine. It is nice optimization.
> 
> I was just quite confused by the name of this function. A function
> called should_ignore_loglevel() should not return false when
> ignore_loglevel variable is true.
> 
> I would call it ignore_message() or ignore_message_on_console() or so.

Hello Petr, you are right.

I was thinking about

s/should_ignore_loglevel/suppress_message/g
or.... s/should_ignore_loglevel/suppress_message_by_level/g
s/should_ignore_loglevel/suppress_message_printing/g

suppress_message_printing() is probably fine.

will it work for you guys?

	-ss