Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/9] ext4: Use pr_fmt and pr_<level> | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:02:54 -0700 |
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On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 22:58 -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote:
[good stuff]
> Of course, the body of the message needs to be standardized too. But > that's orthogonal to the problem of passing the kernel structure which > identifies the object which the log message is about. That part is > completely and utterly necessary if you're going to standardize the > *first* part of the printable dmesg log, which contains the structured > information.
All of what you say is true, but you're neglecting the ability to scrape or notify a particular set of per subsystem messages that pr_<level> could easily provide that a bare printk could not.
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