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From: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: hjlipp@web.de
Subject: [PATCH] reduce syslog clutter
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:10:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43FE40CD.3060803@imap.cc> (raw)

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The current versions of the err() / info() / warn() syslog macros
insert __FILE__ at the beginning of the message, which expands to
the complete path name of the source file within the kernel tree.

With the following patch, when used in a module, they'll insert the
module name instead, which is significantly shorter and also tends to
be more useful to users trying to make sense of a particular message.

The patch also adds macros for the KERN_NOTICE severity level which
was so far uncatered for.

Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
---

 include/linux/device.h |    2 ++
 include/linux/usb.h    |    8 +++++---
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff -ru linux-2.6.16-rc4/include/linux/device.h linux-2.6.16-rc4-new/include/linux/device.h
--- linux-2.6.16-rc4/include/linux/device.h	2006-02-13 01:27:25.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc4-new/include/linux/device.h	2006-02-23 23:28:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -424,6 +424,8 @@
 	dev_printk(KERN_INFO , dev , format , ## arg)
 #define dev_warn(dev, format, arg...)		\
 	dev_printk(KERN_WARNING , dev , format , ## arg)
+#define dev_notice(dev, format, arg...)		\
+	dev_printk(KERN_NOTICE , dev , format , ## arg)

 /* Create alias, so I can be autoloaded. */
 #define MODULE_ALIAS_CHARDEV(major,minor) \
diff -ru linux-2.6.16-rc4/include/linux/usb.h linux-2.6.16-rc4-new/include/linux/usb.h
--- linux-2.6.16-rc4/include/linux/usb.h	2006-02-22 12:04:07.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc4-new/include/linux/usb.h	2006-02-23 23:30:35.000000000 +0100
@@ -1211,11 +1211,13 @@
 #endif

 #define err(format, arg...) printk(KERN_ERR "%s: " format "\n" , \
-	__FILE__ , ## arg)
+	THIS_MODULE ? THIS_MODULE->name : __FILE__ , ## arg)
 #define info(format, arg...) printk(KERN_INFO "%s: " format "\n" , \
-	__FILE__ , ## arg)
+	THIS_MODULE ? THIS_MODULE->name : __FILE__ , ## arg)
 #define warn(format, arg...) printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: " format "\n" , \
-	__FILE__ , ## arg)
+	THIS_MODULE ? THIS_MODULE->name : __FILE__ , ## arg)
+#define notice(format, arg...) printk(KERN_NOTICE "%s: " format "\n", \
+	THIS_MODULE ? THIS_MODULE->name : __FILE__ , ## arg)


 #endif  /* __KERNEL__ */

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Tilman Schmidt                          E-Mail: tilman@imap.cc
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             reply	other threads:[~2006-02-23 23:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-23 23:10 Tilman Schmidt [this message]
2006-02-24  6:05 ` [PATCH] reduce syslog clutter Greg KH
2006-02-24  9:29   ` Tilman Schmidt
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2006-02-24  9:50 Tilman Schmidt

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