On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 22:58 -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote: [good stuff] > Of course, the body of the message needs to be standardized too. But > that's orthogonal to the problem of passing the kernel structure which > identifies the object which the log message is about. That part is > completely and utterly necessary if you're going to standardize the > *first* part of the printable dmesg log, which contains the structured > information. All of what you say is true, but you're neglecting the ability to scrape or notify a particular set of per subsystem messages that pr_<level> could easily provide that a bare printk could not. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html