[PATCH 1/3] Introduce FW_BUG and FW_INFO to consistenly tell users about BIOS bugs

Thomas Renninger
2008-08-27T13:27:13Z

The idea is to add this to printk after the severity:
printk(KERN_ERR FW_BUG "This is not our fault\n");

If a Firmware issue should be hidden, because it is
work-arounded, but you still want to see something popping up e.g.
for info only:
printk(KERN_INFO FW_INFO "This is done stupid, we can handle it,
but it should better be avoided in future\n");

or on the Linuxfirmwarekit to tell vendors that they did something
stupid or wrong without bothering the user:
printk(KERN_INFO FW_BUG "This is done stupid, we can handle it,
but it should better be avoided in future\n");

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
---
include/linux/kernel.h | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 2651f80..68ebfc2 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -190,6 +190,9 @@ extern int kernel_text_address(unsigned long addr);
struct pid;
extern struct pid *session_of_pgrp(struct pid *pgrp);

+#define FW_BUG "[FW Bug]: "
+#define FW_INFO "[FW Info]: "
+
#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
__attribute__ ((format (printf, 1, 0)));
--
1.5.4.5