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SubjectRe: janitoring printk with no KERN_ constants, kill all defaults?
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 05:44:59PM +0200, Daniele Pizzoni wrote:

> I ask, what rationale there is behind checking all printks to include
> the "appropriate" constant? Should then we make printk fail when called
> without KERN_ constant? Or can I force with a sed script all defaulted
> printk to KERN_WARNING?

No. Consider this..

printk (KERN_INFO "blah blah ");
if (foo)
printk ("%s", stringptr);
else
printk ("%d", number);
printk ("\n");

There's nothing wrong with any of those printk's, so you
cannot do the checks you mention above.

Dave

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