Re: [PATCH 1/2] printk: drop call_console_drivers() unused param

From: Petr Mladek
Date: Mon Jan 09 2017 - 08:51:06 EST


On Tue 2017-01-03 11:22:30, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Sat 2016-12-24 23:09:01, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > We do suppress_message_printing() check before we call
> > call_console_drivers() now, so `level' param is not needed
> > anymore.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > kernel/printk/printk.c | 12 ++++--------
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
> > index e2cdd87e7a63..11a9842a2f47 100644
> > --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
> > +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
> > @@ -1510,8 +1510,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(syslog, int, type, char __user *, buf, int, len)
> > * log_buf[start] to log_buf[end - 1].
> > * The console_lock must be held.
> > */
> > -static void call_console_drivers(int level,
> > - const char *ext_text, size_t ext_len,
> > +static void call_console_drivers(const char *ext_text, size_t ext_len,
> > const char *text, size_t len)
>
> Yup, this patch makes sense on its own. The level parameter is unused
> since the commit cf7754441c563230ed7 ("printk: introduce
> suppress_message_printing()").
>
> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>

The patch makes sense on its own. I have pushed it into
the for-4.11 branch, see
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk.git/commit/?h=for-4.11&id=0e91b77060387275b6762c6688e3bddd1b808e2c

Best Regards,
Petr