Re: [PATCH] small cleanup for kernel/printk.c - CodingStyle, Whitespace, printk() loglevels...

[Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>]

On 10/6/05, Arthur Othieno <a.othieno@bluewin.ch> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:56:49PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > Small CodingStyle cleanup for kernel/printk.c
> >   Removes some trailing whitespace
> >   Breaks long lines and make other small changes to conform to CodingStyle
> >   Add explicit printk loglevels in two places.
> >
> > Linus: Sorry to Cc: you on something as trivial as this, but you /are/ listed as
> > the author of the file and I couldn't find a relevant maintainer (except for
> > perhaps Andrew (so I added him to CC as well)).
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >
> > Patch has been compile tested.
> >
> >  kernel/printk.c |   78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
> >  1 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
> >
> > --- linux-2.6.14-rc3-git5-orig/kernel/printk.c        2005-10-03 21:55:39.000000000 +0200
> > +++ linux-2.6.14-rc3-git5/kernel/printk.c     2005-10-05 23:46:54.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -169,11 +169,11 @@ static int __init log_buf_len_setup(char
> >               size = roundup_pow_of_two(size);
> >       if (size > log_buf_len) {
> >               unsigned long start, dest_idx, offset;
> > -             char * new_log_buf;
> > +             char *new_log_buf;
> >
> >               new_log_buf = alloc_bootmem(size);
> >               if (!new_log_buf) {
> > -                     printk("log_buf_len: allocation failed\n");
> > +                     printk(KERN_WARNING "log_buf_len: allocation failed\n");
>
> Wouldn't KERN_ERR be more appropriate here?

I don't think so. Things will still work.
Personally I consider this a warning condition, and without an
explicit loglevel that's also what it was logged as in the past, so
this changes nothing.
If other people disagree I can modify the patch, sure, but I think
KERN_WARNING is appropriate.

[snip]
> > -        struct console *a,*b;
> > +        struct console *a, *b;
> >       int res = 1;
>
> Beep! :)
>
huh?


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