From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757321Ab0LBIF7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2010 03:05:59 -0500 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:47984 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752687Ab0LBIFM (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2010 03:05:12 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,287,1288594800"; d="scan'208";a="632307494" From: Huang Ying To: Len Brown Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen , Tony Luck , ying.huang@intel.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar Subject: [PATCH -v3 1/4] printk, Add pr_pfx for library functions Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 16:05:02 +0800 Message-Id: <1291277105-31758-2-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.2.3 In-Reply-To: <1291277105-31758-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> References: <1291277105-31758-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org For library functions doing printk, the log level and line prefix usually need to be specified by the caller. So this patch adds "pr_pfx" to make the life of these library functions easier. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying --- include/linux/printk.h | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) --- a/include/linux/printk.h +++ b/include/linux/printk.h @@ -202,6 +202,13 @@ extern void print_hex_dump_bytes(const c #endif /* + * Used by library functions, where log level and line prefix need to + * be specifieded by the caller. + */ +#define pr_pfx(pfx, fmt, ...) \ + printk("%s" fmt, pfx, ##__VA_ARGS__) + +/* * ratelimited messages with local ratelimit_state, * no local ratelimit_state used in the !PRINTK case */