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Message-ID: <47968183.3050704@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:51:31 +0900
From: Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
CC: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, randy.dunlap@...cle.com,
daniel.ritz-ml@...ssonline.ch, jeff@...zik.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] printk: implement printk_header() and merging printk,
take #2
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Jan 21 2008 05:48, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 02:13:52PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
>>> In a nutshell, printk_header() lets you do the following atomically
>>> (against other messages).
>>>
>>> code:
>>> printk(KERN_INFO "ata1.00: ", "line0\nline1\nline2\n");
>>>
>>> output:
>>> <6>ata1.00: line0
>>> <6> line1
>>> <6> line2
>> I think this is a really bad idea. It's much better to have:
>>
>> <6>ata1.00: line0
>> <6>ata1.00: line1
>> <6>ata1.00: line2
>>
>> That way you can grep for ata1.00 and get all messages relevant to that
>> device.
>
> Agreed, I too prefer <6>ata1.00 on every line.
What do you think about the second suggestion then?
ata1.00: line0
ata1.00 line1
ata1.00 line2
It allows you to grab for the header && has indication for message
boundaries.
--
tejun
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