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

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 10:31 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 13:07 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > No, I mean use dev_printk() as the base for your logging macro.  Add
> > your message tag as the first field after the dev_printk() information.
> Hmm, you are proposing to introduce a second format for the kmsg
> messages to avoid the need for some more printk wrapper macros. To me it
> seems that this has two problems:
> 1) The message tag is for the user of the system. If it does not have a
> fixed position it gets confusing.

I think the message tag today is not useful for a user.

It seems a barely useful maintainer value.

Perhaps the message tag allows for run-time language
translation and maybe a bit better selective logging.

> 2) The message tag for a driver message usually already includes the
> driver name, the dev_printk will print it again. This is ugly and
> reduces the quality of the message.

Ugly is a beholder problem.

Either printk or dev_printk could reorder the output.