Hello Greg, thanks for your comments. Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 12:10:05AM +0100, Tilman Schmidt wrote: >> 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. > > Note, this is the usb usage, you might want to post this on the > linux-usb-devel mailing list :) Ok. >> 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. > > Does anyone want to use it? Yes, me. :-) In fact, they are being used in the Gigaset drivers which are currently in the process of being submitted for inclusion in the kernel tree, but their definitions are in the driver specific header file drivers/isdn/gigaset/gigaset.h, although they really belong with their brothers and sisters in usb.h / device.h. > I suggest splitting this up into two different patches. Ok. Regards Tilman -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [email protected] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe Rückseite)
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