Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation of kernel messages

[holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Hi Greg,

> Ick, why are you ignoring what we have already with dev_printk() and
> friends?  We are just finally getting developers to use that, I think it
> will be almost impossible to get people to change to something else,
> especially one that isn't even as "correct" as what dev_printk() offers
> you today, will be quite hard.
>
> So, why not use what we already have and work off of it?

dev_printk() and friends are great, since they already define something
like KMSG_COMPONENT: The driver name.

But they unfortunately do not solve our problem. We need an identifier
for a documented message in order to find the right description for a
message.

We could add new dev_printk macros for KMSG printks:

#define dev_printk_kmsg(kmsg, dev, format, arg...) \
        printk(kmsg "%s: " format , (dev)->bus_id , ## arg)
#define dev_err_kmsg(dev, nr, format, arg...) \
        dev_printk_kmsg(KMSG_ERR(nr) , dev , format , ## arg)

E.g. hub.c:
===========

#define KMSG_COMPONENT "hub"

dev_err_kmsg(&udev->dev, 1,
       "can't read configurations, error %d\n", err);

Which would result in:

hub.1 5-0:1.0: can't read configuration error 4711

Michael

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