Re: [PATCHSET] printk: implement printk_header() and merging printk, take #2

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On Jan 21 2008 05:48, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 02:13:52PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> In a nutshell, printk_header() lets you do the following atomically
>> (against other messages).
>> 
>>  code:
>>   printk(KERN_INFO "ata1.00: ", "line0\nline1\nline2\n");
>> 
>>  output:
>>   <6>ata1.00: line0
>>   <6>         line1
>>   <6>         line2
>
>I think this is a really bad idea.  It's much better to have:
>
><6>ata1.00: line0
><6>ata1.00: line1
><6>ata1.00: line2
>
>That way you can grep for ata1.00 and get all messages relevant to that
>device.

Agreed, I too prefer <6>ata1.00 on every line.
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