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 -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
