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Subject: Re: [PATCH] introduce boot_printk()
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Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>
>> every subsystem will have
>> x86_printk
>> acpi_printk
>> pci_printk
> 
> doesn't sound like an easily extensible interface, better would be
> extending printk with a KERN_subsys tag like proposed.
> 

That would be my thinking too.

	-hpa