Re: [PATCH] introduce boot_printk()

[Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>]

On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 10:34 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:24 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> > Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >>
> >> some guys complained that it is even too verbose with KERN_DEBUG
> >>
> >
> > I can understand the desire to enable filtering on a subsystem-by-subsystem
> > basis, but I think rather than doing a subsystem-specific hack we should do
> > something that any subsystem can use.
> >
> > Perhaps we could extend the current <level> hack to include a subsystem,
> > something like:
> >
> > <7><x86>Your blort driver seems to be befudged, trying blarfing.
> >
> > ... and something like "loglevel=x86:7,acpi:3,..."
> >
> sounds good.
> 
> every subsystem will have
> x86_printk
> acpi_printk
> pci_printk

doesn't sound like an easily extensible interface, better would be
extending printk with a KERN_subsys tag like proposed.

Perhaps Jason has better ideas - iirc he worked on something similar.