Re: [PATCH 5/6] dyndbg: in dynamic_emit_prefix, change inter-field separator

[Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 07:56:42PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 17:36 -0600, Jim Cromie wrote:
> > dynamic_emit_prefix() currently separates modname, funcname, lineno
> > with ':'.  This is confounds use of cut -d: <logfile>, since the field
> > positions can change per callsite with dynamic-debug.  So change
> > inter-field separator to '.' and keep the ':' prefix terminator.
> > 
> > This improves the situation, but doesnt solve it entirely; if
> > dyndbg==p is used instead of dyndbg==p[fmlt]+, the callsite is enabled
> > but no prefix is added, so theres one less ':' in the message.
> > Changing the terminator to ',' would fix this, and might be warranted,
> > especially since pr_fmt() typically adds a ':' as well.
> > 
> > Joe Perches wasnt a fan of this, but his complaint was essentially
> > that cut -d: was a poor way to do this kind of thing.  I concede that
> > point, but note that the kernel is not in the habit of needlessly
> > confounding users work, at least when accommodating them is so trivial.
> 
> And I still think this is ugly as it requires different parsing
> by scripts when using combinations of +pfmlt
> 
> 

If this patch doesn't 'solve it entirely', I'm reluctant to ack it,
Would brackets, such as {} around the optional prefix be reasonable?

Thanks,

-Jason