From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756863AbYIPSRZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:17:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753651AbYIPSRR (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:17:17 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:48380 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752767AbYIPSRR (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:17:17 -0400 Message-ID: <48CFF7DF.6010404@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:15:59 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080723) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yinghai Lu CC: Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jbaron Subject: Re: [PATCH] introduce boot_printk() References: <1221465916-30889-1-git-send-email-yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> <48CE983C.8040709@zytor.com> <86802c440809151018k2c7874dfjc8e9791bee9365f9@mail.gmail.com> <48CE9A5C.1030603@zytor.com> <86802c440809151034ycd6442me679792880b03320@mail.gmail.com> <1221575196.6943.24.camel@lappy.programming.kicks-ass.net> <48CFD97C.6080002@zytor.com> <86802c440809161045q2f6d80f1yb6e79f32c6e0c303@mail.gmail.com> <48CFF281.7010101@zytor.com> <86802c440809161110q1fc3d66vedcaa32dea2b2233@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <86802c440809161110q1fc3d66vedcaa32dea2b2233@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Yinghai Lu wrote: > > you still can use > pci_printk(v, KERN_PCI KERN_DEBUG "...\n"); > > if vprintk is expanded to handle KERN_PCI and other tags... > or even you could use > pci_printk(v, KERN_ACPI KERN_DEBUG "...\n"); > And the point of this, other than sheer verbosity? -hpa