Re: [PATCHSET] printk: implement printk_header() and merging printk,take #3

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Feb 14 2008 - 22:17:17 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
>> So, I guess it's NACK w/o suggested alternatives, right?
>
> I wouldn't nack without good reasons, and I have none here. I don't have
> very strong opinions either way.

I was just wondering whether I should just go with snprintf dancing in
eh_link_report, which does make sense if not many need merging printk.

> As a seat-of-the-pants thing, it does seem to be a lot of core code to
> solve a fairly minor problem in (afaik) one remote place. But I haven't
> looked - perhaps there are other places which could be improved if such
> facilities were available.

Okay, I see. I'll look around and see whether there are other places
which can use it. I can think of a few in SCSI. Let's see.

Thanks.

--
tejun
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