From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932306AbYBOC2o (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:28:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760414AbYBOC2d (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:28:33 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:51886 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760221AbYBOC2b (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:28:31 -0500 Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:27:00 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Tejun Heo Cc: jeff@garzik.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, jengelh@computergmbh.de, matthew@wil.cx, randy.dunlap@oracle.com, daniel.ritz-ml@swissonline.ch, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] printk: implement printk_header() and merging printk, take #3 Message-Id: <20080214182700.a9a706e9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <47B4EFAB.2040102@gmail.com> References: <12028937731333-git-send-email-htejun@gmail.com> <20080213155701.48871761.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <47B38E13.1060503@gmail.com> <20080213170950.86945835.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <47B398B3.40308@gmail.com> <47B4EFAB.2040102@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:49:31 +0900 Tejun Heo wrote: > > printk is a special case, I think. It's the primary logging/debugging > > method which can't fail and as it's mostly interpreted by human beings > > (and developers in problematic cases), it has different maneuvering room > > on errors - ie. it's far better to print messages w/o header or proper > > log level than failing to print, which is quite different requirements > > from other components. > > Andrew, any more comments or suggestions on how to proceed on this? Nope. > One > way or the other, I think this is a problem worth solving. There are a lot of such problems ;)