Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: sched: restore sanity | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:21:50 -0800 |
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On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 19:17 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:22:23 -0800 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote: > > What are the negatives of using pr_<level>? > pr_ is really just for "I am a driver and want a single line message > out in a standardized format". > Nothing wrong with that. > > But here you are changing fundamental kernel outputs in the style of an > oops message. Multiline, complex and machine parsed things...
The prefixing was trivial to change. No other output was modified.
I believe kernel log output is specifically _not_ guaranteed and should not be so guaranteed to remain stable across versions.
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