Re: sched: restore sanity

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sun Dec 20 2009 - 13:22:47 EST


On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 19:17 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:22:23 -0800 Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > What are the negatives of using pr_<level>?
> pr_ is really just for "I am a driver and want a single line message
> out in a standardized format".
> Nothing wrong with that.
>
> But here you are changing fundamental kernel outputs in the style of an
> oops message. Multiline, complex and machine parsed things...

The prefixing was trivial to change.
No other output was modified.

I believe kernel log output is specifically _not_ guaranteed
and should not be so guaranteed to remain stable across
versions.


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