Re: [PATCH 2/2] printk: Remember the message level for multi-line output

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
> 
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:
> 
> > btw., we could also start emitting debug warnings that the printk is not 
> > conform. Something like:
> >
> >   "INFO: the previous printk was done without a KERN_ annotation"
> 
> Urgh, that would become very noisy.  If, at all, I'd suggest a config
> option like CONFIG_DEBUG_PRINTK_USAGE and then add a prefix string to
> each printk()ed line missing a severity level.
> 
> printk("foo\n");
> => "[FIX PRINTK] foo"

yes, of course hidden behind a non-default Kconfig variable, like we do 
it with most debug helpers.

	Ingo