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SubjectRe: [PATCHSET] printk: implement printk_header() and merging printk, take #2
Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 02:13:52PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> In a nutshell, printk_header() lets you do the following atomically
>> (against other messages).
>>
>> code:
>> printk(KERN_INFO "ata1.00: ", "line0\nline1\nline2\n");
>>
>> output:
>> <6>ata1.00: line0
>> <6> line1
>> <6> line2
>
> I think this is a really bad idea. It's much better to have:
>
> <6>ata1.00: line0
> <6>ata1.00: line1
> <6>ata1.00: line2
>
> That way you can grep for ata1.00 and get all messages relevant to that
> device.

It has some pros and cons. Having indentation makes things easier on
human eyes but more difficult on scripts, but not too difficult -
indented lines can easily be matched with a bit of scripting. Changing
the behavior is easy but I'm still inclined toward indentation because
printing header every line loses information about message boundaries.
Maybe there's a way to satisfy both like omitting the separator from the
second line on.

ata1.00: line0
ata1.00 line1
ata1.00 line2

Hmm... Any better ideas?

--
tejun


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