Re: [PATCH 00/23] printk: refactoring

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 16:16 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 23:06:04 -0700
> Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Make printk a bit more readable.
[]
> OK, nobody's allowed to change the printk code for two months.

[filelist]

> It wouldn't hurt to describe the design here a bit.  How was the code
> partitioned and what is the role of each file?

Design?  Have you looked at printk recently?

I think you called it something like "eye gouging"
or maybe "burn it down".

Dunno how anyone could consider what there anything
other than accreted.

I just tried to break it up into somewhat sensible blocks.

> That's reasonably obvious from the names, but some might wonder about
> the difference between printk_log and printk_syslog and how that
> division was decided upon.

None of the filenames are great.

I still want to break out the console code from what's
left of printk.c eventually.

I think what would help most is a Documentation/printk.txt
file explaining how it all works.

cheers, Joe

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