linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 25/26] dynamic_debug: add pr_fmt_dbg() for dynamic_pr

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Message-ID: <1318107227.1844.25.camel@Joe-Laptop>
Date:	Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:53:47 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
Cc:	Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@...il.com>, jbaron@...hat.com,
	greg@...ah.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 25/26] dynamic_debug: add pr_fmt_dbg() for
 dynamic_pr_debug

On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 21:07 +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > I think all of the '#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": "'
> > are effectivly useless and I will eventually delete them.
> >
> > The printk subsystem should look up the module name and
> > prefix them to the printk akin to how the dynamic_debug
> > system does.  Except the module name should be a singleton.
> 
> Shouldn't pr_*() equivalents be introduced for sdev_printk(),
> scmd_printk(), starget_printk() and shost_printk() before elimination
> of pr_fmt() can start ?

I don't think that's necessary.
Is there a reason you might think there is?

I don't think there's anything wrong with
<subsystem>_printk uses.  Those subsystems
don't have to use pr_fmt and can prefix
whatever is appropriate.

The scsi logging substem uses sdev_printk,
scmd_printk, starget_printk, and shost _printk.
All of these are mapped to dev_printk and so
don't use pr_fmt.

I did send a patch a few months ago
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/9/14
to reduce text use by some of those.


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