Re: janitoring printk with no KERN_ constants, kill all defaults?

[Daniele Pizzoni <auouo@tin.it>]

On ven, 2004-10-15 at 17:46, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 05:44:59PM +0200, Daniele Pizzoni wrote:
> 
>  > I ask, what rationale there is behind checking all printks to include
>  > the "appropriate" constant? Should then we make printk fail when called
>  > without KERN_ constant? Or can I force with a sed script all defaulted
>  > printk to KERN_WARNING?
> 
> No. Consider this..
> 
> 	printk (KERN_INFO "blah blah ");
> 	if (foo)
> 		printk ("%s", stringptr);
> 	else
> 		printk ("%d", number);
> 	printk ("\n");
> 
> There's nothing wrong with any of those printk's, so you
> cannot do the checks you mention above.

Let me understand... You mean that we should check printk constants for
_consistency_ in their context (that is: for buggish printk code). So
printk without KERN_* constant are not an issue (and the janitors TODO
list entry is a bit puzzling)?

Thanks for helping
Daniele