linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation of kernel messages

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:49:40 -0700
From:	"Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
CC:	holzheu <holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	randy.dunlap@...cle.com, akpm@...l.org, mtk-manpages@....net,
	schwidefsky@...ibm.com, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation of kernel messages

Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:18:00PM +0200, holzheu wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>>> Ick, why are you ignoring what we have already with dev_printk() and
>>> friends?  We are just finally getting developers to use that, I think it
>>> will be almost impossible to get people to change to something else,
>>> especially one that isn't even as "correct" as what dev_printk() offers
>>> you today, will be quite hard.
>>>
>>> So, why not use what we already have and work off of it?
>> dev_printk() and friends are great, since they already define something
>> like KMSG_COMPONENT: The driver name.
> 
> They provide way more than that, they also provide the explicit device
> that is being discussed, as well as other things depending on the
> device.
> 
> So if you are going to do this, please use the already-in-place macros
> to hook into, don't try to get the driver authors to pick up something
> new and different, as it's going to be _very_ difficult, trust me...

absolutely... I'm currently trying to convince everyone to get a generic 
netdevice-centric printk macro (dev_printk does not print the interface name, 
which the netdevice can't store locally since it can change) in and even that is 
a pain :)

Auke
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