Re: [PATCH] printk: introduce should_ignore_loglevel()

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Sat Jun 25 2016 - 01:22:56 EST


On (06/24/16 18:05), Petr Mladek wrote:
[..]
> > +static bool should_ignore_loglevel(int level)
> > +{
> > + return (level >= console_loglevel && !ignore_loglevel);
>
> The patch looks fine. It is nice optimization.
>
> I was just quite confused by the name of this function. A function
> called should_ignore_loglevel() should not return false when
> ignore_loglevel variable is true.
>
> I would call it ignore_message() or ignore_message_on_console() or so.

Hello Petr, you are right.

I was thinking about

s/should_ignore_loglevel/suppress_message/g
or.... s/should_ignore_loglevel/suppress_message_by_level/g
s/should_ignore_loglevel/suppress_message_printing/g

suppress_message_printing() is probably fine.

will it work for you guys?

-ss