On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 21:44 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > The advantage is the added prefix? All messages are automatically prefixed. For instance: > > - printk(KERN_WARNING "Fail to find correlated MSI-X entry!\n"); > > + pr_warn("Fail to find correlated MSI-X entry!\n"); Now has a prefix that describes the module from which the message originates. > $ grep limit Documentation/CodingStyle > The limit on the length of lines is 80 columns and this is a strongly > preferred limit. Read further: However, never break user-visible strings such as printk messages, because that breaks the ability to grep for them. cheers, Joe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html