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From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: allow setting DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LEVEL via Kconfig
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:49:04 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ihr10g$qmm$2@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: AANLkTikaDpZ=Pjb+m7ixCepywtO1bUN02sfimWBSTha3@mail.gmail.com

On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:05:48 -0800, Mandeep Baines wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 8:18 PM, WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:57:00 -0800, Mandeep Singh Baines wrote:
>>
>> > We've been burned by regressions/bugs which we later realized could
>> > have been triaged quicker if only we'd paid closer attention to
>> > dmesg. To make it easier to audit dmesg, we'd like to make
>> > DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LEVEL Kconfig-settable. That way we can set it to
>> > KERN_NOTICE and audit any messages <= KERN_WARNING.
>> >
>> >
>> Why? We already have "loglevel=" kernel parameter.
>>
>>
> loglevel allows you to control which messages go to the console.
> 
> DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LEVEL selects the default message levels for printk()s
> which don't specify a message level.


I think you should fix them instead.

> 
> Most printks()s without a message level aren't really warnings and just
> create noise
> if you're trying to look closely at all warnings. Some of this is just
> old code but new
> printk()s without a message level do get committed from time to time.
> 

IIRC, checkpatch.pl will complain about this.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-27  5:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-25 23:57 [PATCH] printk: allow setting DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LEVEL via Kconfig Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-01-26  0:40 ` Joe Perches
2011-01-26  1:01   ` Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-01-26  1:15     ` Joe Perches
2011-01-26  4:18 ` WANG Cong
2011-01-26 23:05   ` Mandeep Baines
2011-01-27  5:49     ` WANG Cong [this message]
2011-01-26 22:49 ` Andrew Morton
2011-01-26 22:57   ` Randy Dunlap
2011-01-26 23:10     ` Andrew Morton
2011-01-27  7:26       ` WANG Cong
2011-01-27  8:27       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2011-01-27 15:57         ` Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-01-27 20:45           ` Ryan Mallon
2011-01-27 20:53             ` Alexey Dobriyan
2011-01-27 20:57               ` Ryan Mallon
2011-01-26 23:29 ` [PATCH v1 0/6] Set printk priority level Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-01-27  7:22   ` WANG Cong
2011-01-26 23:29 ` [PATCH 1/6] mm/page_alloc: use appropriate " Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-01-27  0:32   ` Ryan Mallon
2011-01-27  4:22     ` Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-01-27 20:32       ` Ryan Mallon
2011-01-26 23:29 ` [PATCH 2/6] arch/x86: " Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-01-26 23:29 ` [PATCH 3/6] PM: " Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-01-31 10:12   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-01-26 23:29 ` [PATCH 4/6] TTY: " Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-02-03 22:13   ` Greg KH
2011-02-06 17:31     ` [PATCH v2] " Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-01-26 23:29 ` [PATCH 5/6] fs: " Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-01-26 23:29 ` [PATCH 6/6] taskstats: " Mandeep Singh Baines

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