Re: [PATCH] printk: support structured and multi-facility logmessages

[Joe Perches]

On Sat, 2012-04-07 at 02:26 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Apr 2012, Kay Sievers wrote:
> 
> > - Output of dev_printk() is reliably machine-readable now. In addition
> >   to the printed plain text message, it creates a log dictionary with the
> >   following properties:
> >     SUBSYSTEM=     - the driver-core subsytem name
> >     DEVICE=
> >       b12:8        - block dev_t
> >       c127:3       - char dev_t
> >       n8           - netdev ifindex
> >       +sound:card0 - subsystem:devname
> 
> One of the questions that hasn't been raised yet, and which I personally 
> consider crucial -- are we making printk() interface part of userspace ABI 
> now by this?

I hope not.

> Today, we are free to change any printk()s and not feel guilty about it at 
> all. With this, we are making the whole thing much more systematic and 
> friendly for automatic userspace consumption.

It _may_ be that new KEYWORD=VALUE combinations may become
systematic and an ABI, but the content of the message is
still arbitrary and should be designated as changeable
without notice.



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