Re: [RFC] New kernel-message logging API

Vegard Nossum
2007-09-23T08:39:25Z

On 9/23/07, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 21:27 +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> > #define kprint(fmt, ...)
>
> Good ideas. Perhaps a prefix of klog or kp_ instead?
> Given the number of 80 column zealots, character naming length matters.

I don't know. Compare the following two lines:

printk(KERN_INFO "Message.\n");
kprint_info("Message.");

By dropping the lengthy macro (it's not like it's going to change
while we're running anyway, so why not make it a part of the function
name?) and the final newline, we actually end up with a net decrease
in line length.

I thought it would be nice to have something that looks familiar,
since that would ease an eventual transition. klog is a valid
alternative, but isn't kp a bit cryptic?

Vegard