linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Silence 'ignoring return value' warnings in drivers/video/aty/radeon

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Message-Id: <20080506212643.444b96db.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 6 May 2008 21:26:43 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, tony@...eyournoodle.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, benh@...nel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Silence 'ignoring return value' warnings in
 drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c

On Tue, 6 May 2008 21:23:14 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> otcompletelyoh, perhaps we could generate a backtrace from within printk()
> itself for when it sees messages which have KERN_ERR or some other
> suitably-chosen (and probably configurable) facility level.

and if that is impractical, perhaps create a new printk facility
(KERN_TRACE?) which gets rewritten to KERN_ERR, but tells printk()
to generate a trace.

Do we really need the file-n-line info?
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