Re: printk regression?

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, Joe Perches wrote:
> 
> Before some changes to the printk code, that used to
> be the only way to get a single printk call with multiple
> line output to have a KERN_<level> on all output lines.
> 
> ie:	printk(KERN_INFO "Line 1\n" KERN_INFO "Line 2\n");
> 
> That style doesn't show up in the grep I posted because most
> of them look like:
> 
> 	printk(KERN_INFO "Line 1\n"
> 	       KERN_INFO "Line 2\n");
> 
> An example:  here's a bit of kernel/module.c:
> 
> 		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: '%s'->init suspiciously returned %d, "
> 				    "it should follow 0/-E convention\n"
> 		       KERN_WARNING "%s: loading module anyway...\n",

Yeah. Today, the way you're supposed to do that is simply

	printk(KERN_WARNING
		"%s: '%s'->init suspiciously returned %d, it should follow 0/-E convention\n"
		"%s: loading module anyway...\n",  
		...

because the KERN_WARNING will cover the whole multi-line printk.

And if you want multiple _different_ loglevels (which is crazy - if you 
really want this, then you should look at your walls and double-check that 
they are nice and softly padded), you need to split it up into multiple 
printk's.

			Linus