Re: [PATCH] reduce syslog clutter

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

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 :)

> 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?

I suggest splitting this up into two different patches.

thanks,

greg k-h
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