Re: [PATCH 2/2] printk: Remember the message level for multi-line output

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net> wrote:

> 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.

i've applied this too for testing.

but multi-line strings are a bit unclean i think: each message line 
should have its separate printk.

will your patch leave the behavior of multiple calls to printk alone? 
I.e. if i do:

  printk(KERN_ALERT "Danger Will Robinson!\n");
  printk("Alien Approaching!\n");

then we'll still get a KERN_ALERT plus a default printk, right? In that 
case my earlier observation about this patch is moot and i guess it's 
fine to do this.

	Ingo