Re: [patch 1/6] kmsg: tagged kernel messages.

[Martin Schwidefsky]

On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 17:15 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > These are just the regular printk levels. If your old printk used a
> > particular level, have the kmsg_xxx printk use the same level. The
> > question about message severity and message documenation are
> > independent, aren't they?
> 
> Yes, but since it's a new message API, I thought you might have an idea.  It's 
> hard for authors (eg. me) to know which level to use.  As a result, levels 
> currently seem to be chosen randomly.
> 
> If you felt inspired to rationalize them, it would let us clean that up as 
> things moved to kmsg :)

Urgs, you are after a sort of definition what the differences is between
a warning, an error, an alert, etc is, aren't you?

-- 
blue skies,
  Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.


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