Re: [PATCH 1/3] Introduce FW_BUG and FW_INFO to consistenly tell users about BIOS bugs

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On Wednesday 27 August 2008 11:44:02 Thomas Renninger wrote:
> The idea is to add this to printk after the severity:
> printk(KERN_ERR FW_BUG "This is not our fault\n");
>
> If a Firmware issue should be hidden, because it is
> work-arounded, but you still want to see something popping up e.g.
> for info only:
> printk(KERN_INFO FW_INFO "This is done stupid, we can handle it,
> but it should better be avoided in future\n");
>
> or on the Linuxfirmwarekit to tell vendors that they did something
> stupid or wrong without bothering the user:
> printk(KERN_INFO FW_BUG "This is done stupid, we can handle it,
> but it should better be avoided in future\n");
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/kernel.h |    3 +++
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
> index 2651f80..68ebfc2 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kernel.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
> @@ -190,6 +190,9 @@ extern int kernel_text_address(unsigned long addr);
>  struct pid;
>  extern struct pid *session_of_pgrp(struct pid *pgrp);
>
> +#define FW_BUG		"[FW Bug]: "
> +#define FW_INFO		"[FW Info]: "
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
>  asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
>  	__attribute__ ((format (printf, 1, 0)));

In firewire-land, we were strongly advised against abbreviating things with 
'fw', because of the ambiguity over whether we're talking firewire or 
firmware. The same might apply here, though I suspect most people think 
'firmware' before they think 'firewire' when they see 'fw'. No skin off my 
back if the code stays as-is, but I thought I'd at least mention it.


-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod@xxxxxxxxxx

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