On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 08:12 +0930, Jonathan Woithe wrote: > what does pr_*() give us over printk()? Consistency in use of prefix.
> I presume it makes it easier to selectively remove certain > printk levels from the kernel image in the > name of size reduction. That's the goal, but there's no support in the standard kernel for that yet. It should also in the future make the prefix a singleton and remove it from the format string making the image text a bit smaller. > Some people *may* insist that these long (>80 character) pr_err() lines be > split so they remain <80 in length. This was the reason why the original > printk() call was split like it was. I don't. It makes grepping source for strings easier. cheers, Joe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
