[PATCH] reduce syslog clutter

[Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>]

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.

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.

Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
---

 usb.h |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff -ru linux-2.6.16-rc4-mm1-orig/include/linux/usb.h linux-2.6.16-rc4-patch-splitpoint/include/linux/usb.h
--- linux-2.6.16-rc4-mm1-orig/include/linux/usb.h	2006-02-22 12:04:07.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc4-patch-splitpoint/include/linux/usb.h	2006-02-24 10:37:53.000000000 +0100
@@ -1211,11 +1211,11 @@
 #endif

 #define err(format, arg...) printk(KERN_ERR "%s: " format "\n" , \
-	__FILE__ , ## arg)
+	THIS_MODULE ? THIS_MODULE->name : __FILE__ , ## arg)
 #define info(format, arg...) printk(KERN_INFO "%s: " format "\n" , \
-	__FILE__ , ## arg)
+	THIS_MODULE ? THIS_MODULE->name : __FILE__ , ## arg)
 #define warn(format, arg...) printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: " format "\n" , \
-	__FILE__ , ## arg)
+	THIS_MODULE ? THIS_MODULE->name : __FILE__ , ## arg)


 #endif  /* __KERNEL__ */

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Tilman Schmidt                          E-Mail: tilman@imap.cc
Bonn, Germany
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