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From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	randy.dunlap@oracle.com, daniel.ritz-ml@swissonline.ch,
	jeff@garzik.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] printk: implement printk_header() and merging printk, take #2
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:51:31 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47968183.3050704@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801230036250.9183@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Jan 21 2008 05:48, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 02:13:52PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
>>> In a nutshell, printk_header() lets you do the following atomically
>>> (against other messages).
>>>
>>>  code:
>>>   printk(KERN_INFO "ata1.00: ", "line0\nline1\nline2\n");
>>>
>>>  output:
>>>   <6>ata1.00: line0
>>>   <6>         line1
>>>   <6>         line2
>> I think this is a really bad idea.  It's much better to have:
>>
>> <6>ata1.00: line0
>> <6>ata1.00: line1
>> <6>ata1.00: line2
>>
>> That way you can grep for ata1.00 and get all messages relevant to that
>> device.
> 
> Agreed, I too prefer <6>ata1.00 on every line.

What do you think about the second suggestion then?

ata1.00: line0
ata1.00  line1
ata1.00  line2

It allows you to grab for the header && has indication for message
boundaries.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-22 23:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-21  5:13 [PATCHSET] printk: implement printk_header() and merging printk, take #2 Tejun Heo
2008-01-21  5:13 ` [PATCH 1/5] printk: keep log level on multiline messages Tejun Heo
2008-01-21  5:13 ` [PATCH 2/5] printk: implement [v]printk_header() Tejun Heo
2008-01-21  5:13 ` [PATCH 3/5] printk: implement merging printk Tejun Heo
2008-01-21  5:13 ` [PATCH 4/5] printk: add Documentation/printk.txt Tejun Heo
2008-01-21  5:13 ` [PATCH 5/5] libata: make libata use printk_header() and mprintk Tejun Heo
2008-01-21 12:48 ` [PATCHSET] printk: implement printk_header() and merging printk, take #2 Matthew Wilcox
2008-01-21 13:04   ` Tejun Heo
2008-01-22 23:36   ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-22 23:51     ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2008-01-22 23:57       ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-23  0:02         ` Tejun Heo

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