Re: [PATCH 2.6.23] SysRq: print hotkey info while pressing undef key

[Yi Yang <yang.y.yi@gmail.com>]

Andreas Schwab 写道:
> Yi Yang <yang.y.yi@gmail.com> writes:
>
>   
>> For SysRq, we just can get hot key list from Documentation/sysrq.txt
>> , but in the most of cases, the user can't access it by hand on
>> using SysRq to debug, so it is better for SysRq to provide an online
>> help for the users.
>>
>> SysRq has already provided a similiar help before this patch, but it
>> is not so definite that the user doesn't know what happened and how
>> to do on pressing an undefined hot key.
>>
>> In addition, that funtion has a big loop with another big loop
>> embedded which is very inefficient, it is intended to skip some hot
>> key help info for such a function as "Changing Loglevel", just print
>> a help info for this, that is very unnecessary. In fact, the key '0'
>>  - '8' have different results the user should know.
>>
>> This patch add this online help function, it'll print thw whole hot
>> key list and corresponding function descriptions, it can print the new
>> defined hot key without any changed needed.
>>
>> The output is the below on pressing an undefined hot key:
>>
>> SysRq : <6>this hot key isn't defined.
>>     
>           ^^^
>
> This is misplaced.
>   

printk(KERN_INFO "SysRq : \n") can fix it.

>   
>> @@ -410,7 +420,7 @@ void __handle_sysrq(int key, struct tty_
>>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&sysrq_key_table_lock, flags);
>>  	orig_log_level = console_loglevel;
>>  	console_loglevel = 7;
>> -	printk(KERN_INFO "SysRq : ");
>> +	printk(KERN_INFO "\nSysRq : ");
>>     
>
> It does not make any sense to put the printk level just before the
> newline, since the newline resets it to the default level.
>   
Thank you, I'll remove \n.
> Andreas.
>
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