On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 08:10, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx > Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:46:06 -0400 > >> OK. Say I'm a scraper. How do I distinguish between: >> >> pr_info("foo"); >> printk(KERN_INFO "foo"); >> >> Oh my. seems that both result in exactly the same thing ending up in the >> dmesg buffer > > No it doesn't result in the same output, read the definitions again. > > pr_info can be influenced by pr_fmt, plain printk cannot And for pr_debug(), there's even more, cfr. CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- 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