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

[Rob Landley]

On Friday 21 September 2007 2:07:38 pm Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, I bumped into this when I implemented dmesg for busybox.  (Had to parse 
and filter it out.)  That said, userspace kind of expects it now...

Rob
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  - Ken Thompson.
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