linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/3] kmsg: Kernel message catalog macros.

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Message-ID: <b3ece790808151003o24e518a1ra217010f6658c2c6@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:03:16 -0700
From:	"Tim Hockin" <thockin@...kin.org>
To:	"Greg KH" <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	"Joe Perches" <joe@...ches.com>, schwidefsky@...ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	lf_kernel_messages@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Michael Holzheu" <holzheu@...ibm.com>,
	"Gerrit Huizenga" <gh@...ibm.com>,
	"Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	"Jan Kara" <jack@...e.cz>, "Pavel Machek" <pavel@....cz>,
	"Sam Ravnborg" <sam@...nborg.org>,
	"Jochen Voß" <jochen.voss@...glemail.com>,
	"Kunai Takashi" <kunai@...ux-foundation.jp>,
	"Tim Bird" <tim.bird@...sony.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] kmsg: Kernel message catalog macros.

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:

>> I'd like to be able to report something like an OOM kill in (roughly)
>> the same way as an ATA error, and I want (though could be talked out
>> of) a way to tell these "events" (for lack of a better word) apart
>> from plain-old-printk()s.
>
> That's great, then create something that can handle both!  Don't throw
> away some wonderful information that way over half the kernel has access
> to just because the minority doesn't.  That would mean that we would
> loose information in those drivers overall.

Sorry, I never meant to imply that dev_printk() was to be ignored, my
examples was meant to be trivial to demonstrate :)  dev_printk() is
good.  We should keep it :)
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