linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] introduce boot

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Message-Id: <1221575196.6943.24.camel@lappy.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:	Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:26:36 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jbaron <jbaron@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] introduce boot_printk()

On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 10:34 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:24 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> > Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >>
> >> some guys complained that it is even too verbose with KERN_DEBUG
> >>
> >
> > I can understand the desire to enable filtering on a subsystem-by-subsystem
> > basis, but I think rather than doing a subsystem-specific hack we should do
> > something that any subsystem can use.
> >
> > Perhaps we could extend the current <level> hack to include a subsystem,
> > something like:
> >
> > <7><x86>Your blort driver seems to be befudged, trying blarfing.
> >
> > ... and something like "loglevel=x86:7,acpi:3,..."
> >
> sounds good.
> 
> every subsystem will have
> x86_printk
> acpi_printk
> pci_printk

doesn't sound like an easily extensible interface, better would be
extending printk with a KERN_subsys tag like proposed.

Perhaps Jason has better ideas - iirc he worked on something similar.

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