Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-rc4] aoe [06/13]: clean up printks via macros

["Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 09:29:45PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 18 August 2006 19:39, Ed L. Cashin wrote:
> > 
> > +#define xprintk(L, fmt, arg...) printk(L "aoe: " "%s: " fmt, __func__, ## arg) 
> > +#define iprintk(fmt, arg...) xprintk(KERN_INFO, fmt, ## arg)
> > +#define eprintk(fmt, arg...) xprintk(KERN_ERR, fmt, ## arg)
> > +#define dprintk(fmt, arg...) xprintk(KERN_DEBUG, fmt, ## arg)
> > +
> 
> Can't you use the dev_{info,error,dbg}() functions instead?

That's a good thought, but I don't think so.  The dev_* macros don't
add the function name to the printed message, and we don't have a
struct device pointer in all our contexts.  Even if we did, it would
be kind of forced to do that just to try to get the prefix "aoe: " and
the function name into the printks, which the new macros do nicely.

-- 
  Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>