Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Feb 2006 22:05:05 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] reduce syslog clutter |
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On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 12:10:05AM +0100, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > The current versions of the err() / info() / warn() syslog macros > insert __FILE__ at the beginning of the message, which expands to > the complete path name of the source file within the kernel tree.
Note, this is the usb usage, you might want to post this on the linux-usb-devel mailing list :)
> With the following patch, when used in a module, they'll insert the > module name instead, which is significantly shorter and also tends to > be more useful to users trying to make sense of a particular message. > > The patch also adds macros for the KERN_NOTICE severity level which > was so far uncatered for.
Does anyone want to use it?
I suggest splitting this up into two different patches.
thanks,
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