On 03/11/2014 10:46 AM, Joe Perches wrote: > On Tue, 2014-03-11 at 10:37 -0700, Ben Greear wrote: >> but I would also suggest giving user a clue as to the >> severity. Something starting with 'failed' or 'warning' is pretty obvious. > > Isn't that the whole point of KERN_<LEVEL>? > > I think duplicating it is pointless. Normal users use dmesg or cat /var/log/messages. The KERN_LEVEL is not immediately obvious there (at least on my Fedora systems). And either way, the driver may want to always show some interesting thing and so put it at KERN_ERR when in fact is not a real error that the user should be concerned about (think firmware version, for instance) Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
