Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/6] kmsg: tagged kernel messages. | Date | Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:15:32 +1000 |
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On Friday 26 September 2008 18:29:34 Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 14:48 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > > On Friday 26 September 2008 02:28:28 Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > > > +#define kmsg_emerg(fmt, ...) \ > > > + kmsg_printk_hash(KERN_EMERG, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__) > > > +#define kmsg_alert(fmt, ...) \ > > > + kmsg_printk_hash(KERN_ALERT, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__) > > > +#define kmsg_crit(fmt, ...) \ > > > + kmsg_printk_hash(KERN_CRIT, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__) > > > +#define kmsg_err(fmt, ...) \ > > > + kmsg_printk_hash(KERN_ERR, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__) > > > +#define kmsg_warn(fmt, ...) \ > > > + kmsg_printk_hash(KERN_WARNING, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__) > > > +#define kmsg_notice(fmt, ...) \ > > > + kmsg_printk_hash(KERN_NOTICE, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__) > > > +#define kmsg_info(fmt, ...) \ > > > + kmsg_printk_hash(KERN_INFO, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__) > > > > Now I'm going to be an asshole and ask you to define when each of these > > levels should be used. Do we need all of them? > > These are just the regular printk levels. If your old printk used a > particular level, have the kmsg_xxx printk use the same level. The > question about message severity and message documenation are > independent, aren't they?
Yes, but since it's a new message API, I thought you might have an idea. It's hard for authors (eg. me) to know which level to use. As a result, levels currently seem to be chosen randomly.
If you felt inspired to rationalize them, it would let us clean that up as things moved to kmsg :)
Cheers, Rusty.
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