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Message-Id: <200709211553.35857.rob@landley.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:53:35 -0500
From: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc: Tim Bird <tim.bird@...sony.com>, linux-tiny@...enic.com,
linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
CE Linux Developers List <celinux-dev@...e.celinuxforum.org>,
Michael Opdenacker <michael@...e-electrons.com>
Subject: Re: printk proposal - (was Linux-tiny project revival)
On Friday 21 September 2007 2:07:38 pm Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 01:22:45PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
> > Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > > Given that
> > > a) there're plenty of printks without any KERN_* bloat,
> > > b) there're printks that SHOULD NOT have KERN_* bloat,
> >
> > Just to clarify, which bloat are you concerned about?
> > I presume source code bloat (but maybe you mean
> > message size bloat, or object code bloat)?
>
> Users of ignore_loglevel still has "<[0-7]>" prefixes in kernel image,
> yes. On source level, too -- as someone who never saw value in them,
> KERN_* are just needless characters, making code harder to read.
Yeah, I bumped into this when I implemented dmesg for busybox. (Had to parse
and filter it out.) That said, userspace kind of expects it now...
Rob
--
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
- Ken Thompson.
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