Re: + remove-current-defines-and-uses-of-pr_err-add-pr_emerg.patch added to -mm tree

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>]

On Aug 7 2007 09:10, Joe Perches wrote:
>On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 18:47 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
>> On 8/4/2007, "Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@computergmbh.de> wrote: 
>> >Ugh. What do we have printk for then? I do not like this.
>> >For pr_debug() it makes sense because its semantics change with
>> >-DDEBUG and -UDEBUG, but for these pr_()s it does not seem so.
>> I think I agree with Jan here, I see no fundamental need for these
>> additional macros. But if they are really added, then they should follow
>> the same standard as pr_debug() and pr_info(), that is: no "\n" added
>> automatically. Otherwise this will become quite messy.
>
>2 reasons:
>
>This change will eventually isolate multiple line
>printk messages and allow easier insertion of 
>
>printk_block_start
>printks
>printk_block_end
>
>so that multiple line messages are kept together in the message logs.

They are not kept together today, so I do not see how that will change.
Locking the printk buffer between _start and _end? No thanks, I don't
have overlapping messages that often.

Or what is it actually that you are trying to accomplish?


	Jan
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