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From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: allow setting DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LEVEL via Kconfig
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:26:12 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ihr6mk$qmm$4@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110126151017.ed9e627c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:10:17 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:57:03 -0800
> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote:
> 
>> > I'm a bit surprised that this wasn't already tunable at boot-time
>> > and/or at runtime.
>> 
>> 
>> As WANG Cong replied:
>> 
>> Why? We already have "loglevel=" kernel parameter.
> 
> That's different.
> 
> Mandeep's patch addresses printks which didn't have a facility level.
> Longer-term, all these should be fixed, so they have an explicit
> facility level.  I suppose that short-term it would make sense to prefer
> to blurt these messages onto the console rather than hiding them. 
> Because they might be important.  And if they weren't important, they
> will then irritate enough people to get themselves fixed.

Yeah, agreed. Actually checkpatch.pl will complain if a patch
contains a printk without KERN_*, this somewhat stops us having
more printk's without KERN_*.

Thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-27  7:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-25 23:57 Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-01-26  0:40 ` Joe Perches
2011-01-26  1:01   ` Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-01-26  1:15     ` Joe Perches
2011-01-26  4:18 ` WANG Cong
2011-01-26 23:05   ` Mandeep Baines
2011-01-27  5:49     ` WANG Cong
2011-01-26 22:49 ` Andrew Morton
2011-01-26 22:57   ` Randy Dunlap
2011-01-26 23:10     ` Andrew Morton
2011-01-27  7:26       ` WANG Cong [this message]
2011-01-27  8:27       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2011-01-27 15:57         ` Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-01-27 20:45           ` Ryan Mallon
2011-01-27 20:53             ` Alexey Dobriyan
2011-01-27 20:57               ` Ryan Mallon
2011-01-26 23:29 ` [PATCH v1 0/6] Set printk priority level Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-01-27  7:22   ` WANG Cong
2011-01-26 23:29 ` [PATCH 1/6] mm/page_alloc: use appropriate " Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-01-27  0:32   ` Ryan Mallon
2011-01-27  4:22     ` Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-01-27 20:32       ` Ryan Mallon
2011-01-26 23:29 ` [PATCH 2/6] arch/x86: " Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-01-26 23:29 ` [PATCH 3/6] PM: " Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-01-31 10:12   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-01-26 23:29 ` [PATCH 4/6] TTY: " Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-02-03 22:13   ` Greg KH
2011-02-06 17:31     ` [PATCH v2] " Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-01-26 23:29 ` [PATCH 5/6] fs: " Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-01-26 23:29 ` [PATCH 6/6] taskstats: " Mandeep Singh Baines

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