Hi Joe, On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 15:17 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> In v3.6-rc1 UML, I see spurious "^A" (ASCII 1, SOH) characters in some kernel >> messages: >> >> Calibrating delay loop... 4640.76 BogoMIPS (lpj=23203840) >> pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301 >> Mount-cache hash table entries: 256 >> ^AChecking that host ptys support output SIGIO...Yes >> ^AChecking that host ptys support SIGIO on close...No, enabling workaround >> ^AUsing 2.6 host AIO >> NET: Registered protocol family 16 >> bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0 >> Switching to clocksource itimer >> >> This happens for all output using the "printk(UM_KERN_XXX ...)" idiom. > > Were these emitted with "KERN_<LEVEL>" string constants > before this change (not <[0-7]>", but the string text > KERN_INFO, KERN_WARNING, etc...)? They were emitted with the "<x>" string constants. This is used in the userspace part of UML, which runs as a userspace application on the host. Hence it cannot include kernel header files directly. However, now include/linux/kern_levels.h is fairly self-container, perhaps we should just include that file directly instead of, and get rid of all DEFINE_STR() users. 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-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html