From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754622Ab0EQICJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2010 04:02:09 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:12732 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752564Ab0EQICG (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2010 04:02:06 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.53,246,1272870000"; d="scan'208";a="518492318" Subject: [RFC 1/2] Add HW_ERR printk prefix for hardware error logging From: Huang Ying To: Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andi Kleen , Hidetoshi Seto Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 16:02:04 +0800 Message-ID: <1274083324.3564.653.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This makes hardware error related log in printk log more explicit. So that the users can report it to hardware vendor instead of LKML or software vendor. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying --- include/linux/kernel.h | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) --- a/include/linux/kernel.h +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -245,6 +245,13 @@ extern struct pid *session_of_pgrp(struc #define FW_WARN "[Firmware Warn]: " #define FW_INFO "[Firmware Info]: " +/* + * HW_ERR + * Add this to a message for hardware errors, so that user can report + * it to hardware vendor instead of LKML or software vendor. + */ +#define HW_ERR "[Hardware Error]: " + #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args) __attribute__ ((format (printf, 1, 0)));