Re: printk proposal - (was Linux-tiny project revival)

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 01:22:45PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
> Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > Given that
> > a) there're plenty of printks without any KERN_* bloat,
> > b) there're printks that SHOULD NOT have KERN_* bloat,
> 
> Just to clarify, which bloat are you concerned about?
> I presume source code bloat (but maybe you mean
> message size bloat, or object code bloat)?

Users of ignore_loglevel still has "<[0-7]>" prefixes in kernel image,
yes. On source level, too -- as someone who never saw value in them,
KERN_* are just needless characters, making code harder to read.
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