From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758706AbYDMLyi (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:54:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752949AbYDMLya (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:54:30 -0400 Received: from yoi5.greathalifaxhome.com ([66.180.172.116]:35978 "HELO vps1.tull.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752461AbYDMLya (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:54:30 -0400 X-Spam-Check-By: mail.local.tull.net From: Nick Andrew Subject: [PATCH 2/2] printk: Remember the message level for multi-line output To: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds Cc: , Andrew Morton , joe@perches.com Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:54:20 +1000 Message-ID: <20080413115351.29086.40504.stgit@marcab.local.tull.net> In-Reply-To: <20080413115152.29086.37845.stgit@marcab.local.tull.net> References: <20080413115152.29086.37845.stgit@marcab.local.tull.net> User-Agent: StGIT/0.14.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SMTPD: qpsmtpd/0.26, http://develooper.com/code/qpsmtpd/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org printk: Remember the message level for multi-line output printk(KERN_ALERT "Danger Will Robinson!\nAlien Approaching!\n"); At present this will result in one message at ALERT level and one at the current default message loglevel (e.g. WARNING). This is non-intuitive. Modify vprintk() to remember the message loglevel each time it is specified and use it for subsequent lines of output which do not specify one, within the same call to printk. Signed-off-by: Nick Andrew --- kernel/printk.c | 2 -- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c index bca9359..5c97eb1 100644 --- a/kernel/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk.c @@ -716,8 +716,6 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args) current_log_level = p[1] - '0'; p += 3; printed_len -= 3; - } else { - current_log_level = default_message_loglevel; } /* Always output the token */