Re: [PATCHSET] printk: implement printk_header() and merging printk

From: Matt Mackall
Date: Fri Jan 18 2008 - 13:42:50 EST



On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 10:00 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> And mprintk the following.
>
> code:
> DEFINE_MPRINTK(mp, 2 * 80);
>
> mprintk_set_header(&mp, KERN_INFO "ata%u.%2u: ", 1, 0);
> mprintk_push(&mp, "ATA %d", 7);
> mprintk_push(&mp, ", %u sectors\n", 1024);
> mprintk(&mp, "everything seems dandy\n");

I prefer Matthew Wilcox's stringbuf approach which does proper memory
management and isn't specific to printk:

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0710.3/0517.html

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