Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:28:03 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [folded] kernelh-add-printk_ratelimited-and-pr_level_rl-rename.patch removed from -mm tree |
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On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:28:02 +0100 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 17:08 -0800, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote: > > s/_rl/_ratelimited/g > > do we feel this pr_* wankery is worth the hassle? I'd as soon send a > patch removing all this crap.
I thought it was just me. No, I find it a net negative, but I don't work on drivers all day.
otoh, every second driver seems to find it necessary to invent its own handy printk wrappers, so being able to point people at standardized ones does offer some improvement over that.
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