> You are right about needing to log parameters, but given a log line
> of the form
>
> %s: went up in flames\n\0eth0\0\0
>
> that can be handled by the log viewer
How about this scheme instead?
printk("%s: went up in flames\n", "eth0");
would become
\0eth0\0: went up in flames\n\0\0
i.e. the zeros would mark a transition between text that came from
parameters and what was from the format string. This would be a
lot easier to write to the console.
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