On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> I'd like to be able to report something like an OOM kill in (roughly) >> the same way as an ATA error, and I want (though could be talked out >> of) a way to tell these "events" (for lack of a better word) apart >> from plain-old-printk()s. > > That's great, then create something that can handle both! Don't throw > away some wonderful information that way over half the kernel has access > to just because the minority doesn't. That would mean that we would > loose information in those drivers overall. Sorry, I never meant to imply that dev_printk() was to be ignored, my examples was meant to be trivial to demonstrate :) dev_printk() is good. We should keep it :) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
