Re: [PATCH 1/4] printk: rename DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 08:04:13AM -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> This commit:
>     a8fe19eb kernel/printk: use symbolic defines for console loglevels
> makes consistent use of symbolic values for printk() log levels.
> 
> The naming scheme used is different from the one used for
> DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL though.  Change that symbol name to be
> MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT for consistency.
> 
> Note that we don't rename CONFIG_DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL (to avoid
> breaking existing config files that might reference it).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
> ---
>  include/linux/printk.h | 2 +-
>  kernel/printk/printk.c | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/printk.h b/include/linux/printk.h
> index 319ff7e..3d1ccad 100644
> --- a/include/linux/printk.h
> +++ b/include/linux/printk.h
> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ static inline const char *printk_skip_level(const char *buffer)
>  }
>  
>  /* printk's without a loglevel use this.. */
> -#define DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL CONFIG_DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL
> +#define MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT CONFIG_DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL

Well, I can't say I like it - we have the config item
CONFIG_DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL and DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL resembles
it for a reason - it is the corresponding define coming from .config.

With this change you have:

CONFIG_DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL
       MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT

which is more confusing. To me at least. I can't see the resemblance at
a quick glance anymore.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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