On Thursday 04 October 2007 3:17:03 pm Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:04:07 +0200 Vegard Nossum wrote:
> > Description: This patch largely implements the kprint API as previously
> > posted to the LKML and described in Documentation/kprint.txt (see patch).
> >
> > The main purpose of this change is provide a unified logging API to the
> > kernel and at the same time make it easy to add extensions, now and
> > later.
> >
> > My changes and additions are as follows:
>
> $ diffstat -p1 -w70 kprint.patch
...
> 40 files changed, 1660 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-)
I started this thread by posting an idea I had for shrinking the kernel by
allowing more code to be configured out. The API change was exactly one new
parameter, with a direct 1->1 mapping from the old API to the new one, which
was trivial to convert and which the compiler would catch if you missed one.
The result of the discussion is a patch adding 1600 lines to the kernel,
without removing anything.
Last I checked, the current prink() worked just fine. Why is this _not_ the
dreaded "infrastructure in search of a use"? What exactly can we _not_ do
with the current code? What does this allow us to remove and simplify?
I'm confused about what people are trying to accomplish here...
Rob
--
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
- Ken Thompson.
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