linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/misc/kgdbts.c: remove eprintk

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Date:	Mon, 5 Nov 2012 20:01:49 +0000
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:	walter harms <wharms@....de>, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
	kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/misc/kgdbts.c: remove eprintk

On Monday 05 November 2012, Julia Lawall wrote:
> OK, I could try proposing that, and if someone doesn't think it is the
> right thing to do, they can ignore the patch.
> 
> Concretely, KERN_WARNING should be added in the printk called from WARN,
> and all KERN information should be removed from the calls?

I think that would be the right solution, yes. Unfortunately, I don't
know how to easily do this since we are already passing down a format
string into vprintk here. Maybe just add the KERN_WARNING at the point
where __WARN_printf gets called.

	Arnd
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