Hi All,
Merry christmas and happy new year for everyone.
I am planning to spend the christmas holiday to learn hacking the linux kernel (because I don't have enough money to go anywhere :( ). I am a Perl programmer doing web development but have been wanting to be a kernel hacker.
So, I am thinking to start working on the kernel janitor's todo list.
The point that I wanted to do is this:
- printk() calls should include appropriate KERN_* constant (of course only at beginning of lines).
Also consider using dev_printk() and friends.
The problem with doing that is that when I did:
$ grep -rn 'printk([^K]' . >/home/cheepy/linux/printk-todo
$ wc -l /home/cheepy/linux/printk-todo
29881 printk-todo
How am I supposed to change all of those 29881 printk's? Can I just write a script to search and replace them all?
My basic question is how are choices like this gets decided?
Thanks...
Badai Aqrandista
