Greg, >> > What text is changing? The format of of the prefix of dev_*() is well >> > known and has been stable for 15+ years now, right? What is difficult >> > in parsing it? >> >> Many of the storage layer messages are using printk, not dev_printk. > > Ok, then stop right there. Fix that up. Don't try to route around the > standard way of displaying log messages by creating a totally different > way of doing things. Couldn't agree more! -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering