linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: Neaten show_regs, remove KERN

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Date:   Tue, 25 Oct 2016 11:05:09 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: Neaten show_regs, remove KERN_CONT

On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 10:55 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And yes, what we probably *should* do is to do the newline breaking
> when adding things to the log, rather than doing it in the
> "msg_print_text()" phase.

Yeah.

One thing that'd be nice one day is to remove all the
#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
lines and have printk do that instead using a singleton
or a lookup for KBUILD_MODNAME as appropriate.

> There's a reason why I actually would have liked to entirely rewrite
> the whole printk mess.But there's also a reason I didn't - I'm not
> quite _that_ much of a glutton for punishment.

You sure?