From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [patch 1/6] kmsg: tagged kernel messages.
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:16:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1222557400.14610.9.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200809271715.33968.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 17:15 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > These are just the regular printk levels. If your old printk used a
> > particular level, have the kmsg_xxx printk use the same level. The
> > question about message severity and message documenation are
> > independent, aren't they?
>
> Yes, but since it's a new message API, I thought you might have an idea. It's
> hard for authors (eg. me) to know which level to use. As a result, levels
> currently seem to be chosen randomly.
>
> If you felt inspired to rationalize them, it would let us clean that up as
> things moved to kmsg :)
Urgs, you are after a sort of definition what the differences is between
a warning, an error, an alert, etc is, aren't you?
--
blue skies,
Martin.
"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-27 23:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-25 16:28 [patch 0/6] [RFC] kmsg macros, take x+3 Martin Schwidefsky
2008-09-25 16:28 ` [patch 1/6] kmsg: tagged kernel messages Martin Schwidefsky
2008-09-26 4:48 ` Rusty Russell
2008-09-26 8:29 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-09-27 7:15 ` Rusty Russell
2008-09-27 23:16 ` Martin Schwidefsky [this message]
2008-09-28 2:09 ` Rusty Russell
2008-09-29 8:35 ` Christian Borntraeger
2008-09-25 16:28 ` [patch 2/6] kmsg: tagged device messages Martin Schwidefsky
2008-09-26 17:57 ` Greg KH
2008-09-27 23:11 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-09-28 2:04 ` Greg KH
2008-09-25 16:28 ` [patch 3/6] kmsg: Kernel message catalog script Martin Schwidefsky
2008-09-25 16:28 ` [patch 4/6] kmsg: convert xpram messages to kmsg api Martin Schwidefsky
2008-09-25 16:28 ` [patch 5/6] kmsg: convert vmcp " Martin Schwidefsky
2008-09-25 16:28 ` [patch 6/6] kmsg: convert lcs printk messages " Martin Schwidefsky
2008-12-08 6:04 ` kprintk patch and OSS Message Pedia Takahashi, Hideki
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