Re: [PATCH v4] printk: Add monotonic, boottime, and realtime timestamps

[Prarit Bhargava]

On 08/07/2017 08:19 PM, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (08/07/17 11:52), Prarit Bhargava wrote:

<snip>

> [..]
>> +	if (strlen(param) == 1) {
>> +		/* Preserve legacy boolean settings */
>> +		if (!strcmp("0", param) || !strcmp("n", param) ||
>> +		    !strcmp("N", param))
>> +			_printk_time = PRINTK_TIME_DISABLE;
>> +		if (!strcmp("1", param) || !strcmp("y", param) ||
>> +		    !strcmp("Y", param))
>> +			_printk_time = PRINTK_TIME_LOCAL;
>> +	}
>> +	if (_printk_time == -1) {
>> +		for (stamp = 0; stamp <= 4; stamp++) {
>> +			if (!strncmp(printk_time_str[stamp], param,
>> +				     strlen(param))) {
>> +				_printk_time = stamp;
>> +				break;
>> +			}
>> +		}
>> +	}
> 
> 	you can use match_string() here.

match_string doesn't match correctly.  Others have made requests for, for
example, printk.time=r printk.time=real, etc.  Instead of butchering the code
for a bunch of strings I chose to allow partial matching and simplify the code.

P.