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SubjectRe: Event logging vs enhancing printk
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On 9 April 2002 18:49, Brian Beattie wrote:
> I would prefer to see effort expended on fixing printk/klogd...off the
> top of my head:
>
> - make printk a macro that prepends file/function/line to the message.
> - fix printk calls: messages with consistent format, calls in the right
> places, with the "correct" information.
> - postprocessing tools for analysing the logs.
>
> I would say that this is probably less work than implementing evlog,
> much less work to maintain, and provide generally better performance.

Sounds ok for me.

It will be difficult to push it into mainline kernel.
I tried to fix loglevels in some printks. Patches were _trivial_
but nevertheless they weren't taken.
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