Re: [PATCH] introduce boot_printk()

Yinghai Lu
2008-09-15T17:35:10Z

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

YH