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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Daniele Pizzoni <auouo@tin.it>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org>,
	pazke@orbita.don.sitek.net
Subject: [KJ] Re: janitoring printk with no KERN_ constants,
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:46:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041015154658.GD23638@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1097855099.3004.64.camel@pdp11.tsho.org>

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On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 05:44:59PM +0200, Daniele Pizzoni wrote:

 > I ask, what rationale there is behind checking all printks to include
 > the "appropriate" constant? Should then we make printk fail when called
 > without KERN_ constant? Or can I force with a sed script all defaulted
 > printk to KERN_WARNING?

No. Consider this..

	printk (KERN_INFO "blah blah ");
	if (foo)
		printk ("%s", stringptr);
	else
		printk ("%d", number);
	printk ("\n");

There's nothing wrong with any of those printk's, so you
cannot do the checks you mention above.

		Dave


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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Daniele Pizzoni <auouo@tin.it>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org>,
	pazke@orbita.don.sitek.net
Subject: Re: janitoring printk with no KERN_ constants, kill all defaults?
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:46:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041015154658.GD23638@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1097855099.3004.64.camel@pdp11.tsho.org>

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 05:44:59PM +0200, Daniele Pizzoni wrote:

 > I ask, what rationale there is behind checking all printks to include
 > the "appropriate" constant? Should then we make printk fail when called
 > without KERN_ constant? Or can I force with a sed script all defaulted
 > printk to KERN_WARNING?

No. Consider this..

	printk (KERN_INFO "blah blah ");
	if (foo)
		printk ("%s", stringptr);
	else
		printk ("%d", number);
	printk ("\n");

There's nothing wrong with any of those printk's, so you
cannot do the checks you mention above.

		Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-15 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-15 14:48 [KJ] janitoring printk with no KERN_ constants, kill all defaults? Daniele Pizzoni
2004-10-15 15:44 ` Daniele Pizzoni
2004-10-15 15:46 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2004-10-15 15:46   ` Dave Jones
2004-10-15 17:20   ` Daniele Pizzoni
2004-10-15 16:17 ` [KJ] " Nishanth Aravamudan
2004-10-15 16:17   ` Nishanth Aravamudan

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