On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: >> Is any of the "\x" (backslash + character) unused and thus available? > > I guess control characters would work. > > #define PRINTK_COMM "\001"
Not that one, cfr. include/linux/kern_levels.h ;-) > #define PRINTK_PID "\002" > #define PRINTK_TASK_ID "\003" /* "comm:pid" */ > > printk(PRINTK_TASK_ID ": hair on fire\n"); > > It's certainly compact. I doubt if there's any existing code which > deliberately prints control chars? But the rest looks OK to me. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/