Re: [PATCH] procfs: use WARN() rather than printk+backtrace

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Thu Oct 23 2008 - 09:30:29 EST


On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:35:47 +0400
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 06:46:12AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > - printk(KERN_WARNING "proc_dir_entry
> > '%s/%s' already registered\n",
> > + WARN(1, KERN_WARNING "proc_dir_entry
> > '%s/%s' already registered\n",
>
> Applied to proc.git
>
> As a side note, seeing WARN twice on this line is depressing, and
> people use WARN(, KERN_ERR);
>
> I mean, how hard is to get something conceptually simple as warning
> right?

if we were consistent about which level we wanted these things at we
could fold that into the macro. Sadly that's not the case ;(
(and then there's the issue with multilines etc)
Also, WARN() tries to be as printk() compatible as possible, and that
includes the log level....

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