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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [patch 1/6] kmsg: tagged kernel messages.
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:09:54 +1000
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On Sunday 28 September 2008 09:16:40 Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 17:15 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > 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?

And it is a sign of my admiration for your intellect that I asked you for it.  
(Does that help?)

Rusty.