linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Make some ext3 kernel messages useful by showing device

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Message-Id: <20080609134918.ed83d0d7.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Mon, 9 Jun 2008 13:49:18 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	lkml@...anurb.dk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make some ext3 kernel messages useful by showing device

On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:43:20 -0500
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> wrote:

> > 
> > It is very much preferred, thanks.
> > 
> > (patch retained for linux-ext4 review)
> 
> The patch itself looks fine to me, and is a good idea.  I recently saw a
> confused user on another fs where successful mount messages were
> followed by failure mount messages with no indication of which fs had
> the trouble...
> 
> There probably are more spots in extX which could use this treatment...
> should we maybe just be using ext3_warning in more places, which
> automatically prints the sb, function name, etc?

Good point, thanks.
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