Re: [patch] printk subsystems

[Martin Hicks <mort@wildopensource.com>]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 03:05:07PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
> > 
> > Well, #define DEBUG in the driver seems like the way to go. I do not
> > like "subsystem ID" idea, because subsystems are not really well
> > defined etc.
> >
> 
> I think that's a non-issue, because it's largely self-defining.  It's
> basically whatever the developers want them to be, because they're the
> ones who it needs to make sense to.

Exactly right.  The worst cases are: 1) developers  assign messages
to a completely wrong subsystem or 2) don't assign the printk to any
subsystem, in which case we're in exactly the same situation as we are
in now.

> It should, however, be an open set, not a closed set like in syslog.

I agree.  I'll try to make it as easy as possible to add another
subsystem.

I'm going to work on the sysctl interface for this next.

mh

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