Re: [PATCH 1/2] watchdog: Fix output

[Don Zickus]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 05:48:58PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 05:44:41PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 12:37:48PM -0400, Don Zickus wrote:
> > > Would something like this be a better patch?
> > 
> > > -#define pr_fmt(fmt) "NMI watchdog: " fmt
> > > +#define pr_fmt(fmt) "Lockup detector: " fmt
> 
> You might want to audit all the other pr_ nonsense in that file; a lot
> of the msgs don't particularly make sense when combined with the prefix.
> 
> Some are for the NMI thing, others for the soft lockup one.
> 
> I would just chuck pr_crap() altogether and use sensible text.

Hehe.  I'll look into that next week.  :-)

Cheers,
Don