linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/8] ACPI, CPER: Update cper info

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Message-ID: <1381888638.22110.43.camel@joe-AO722>
Date:	Tue, 15 Oct 2013 18:57:18 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:	"Chen, Gong" <gong.chen@...ux.intel.com>, tony.luck@...el.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] ACPI, CPER: Update cper info

On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 17:47 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:06:30AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > -	printk("%s""APEI generic hardware error status\n", pfx);
> > > +	printk("%s""Generic Hardware Error Status\n", pfx);
> > 
> > Btw, what's the story with printk not using KERN_x levels in this file?
> > Why are we falling back to default printk levels for all printks here
> > and shouldn't we rather prioritize them by urgency into, say, KERN_ERR,
> > KERN_INFO, etc?
> 
> Ignore that - checkpatch complained about it but I kinda missed that
> we're handing down the prefix.

I think it'd be better to rename pfx to level
as that's what printk.h calls them.




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