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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/9] overlay filesystem: request for inclusion (v17)
On 2013-03-13 7:12 PM, Robin Holt wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 05:51:33PM +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Anyway, with CONFIG_OVERLAYFS_FS=m I do not see any related messages
>> >> when the kernel-module is loaded.
>> >> So, is this intended?
>> >> SquashFS prints into the logs, so what is it doing differently?
>> >
>> > Some modules do, some don't. It's not compulsory and not very useful.
>> >
>>
>> What about...
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
>> index 482c26f..92b9ad5 100644
>> --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
>> +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
>> @@ -675,11 +675,13 @@ MODULE_ALIAS_FS("overlayfs");
>> static int __init ovl_init(void)
>> {
>> return register_filesystem(&ovl_fs_type);
>> + printk(KERN_INFO "overlayfs: loaded\n");
>
> How about pr_debug(). That makes things quite for most of us but gives
> you info when looking for things like boot problems.
How is having a printk/pr_debug useful here at all? The fact that other
filesystems do this as well is not a good reason...
Also, putting it *after* the return statement doesn't make much sense ;)

- Felix



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