Rusty Russell wrote:
> In message <[email protected]> [Jeff Garzik] write[s]:
>>Changing every printk() in the damn kernel?
>>Come on dude, I _know_ you have more taste than that.
>
> I'm not interested in changing all the printks. I'm interested in
> designing the simplest regularized logging interface I can. If it's
> done right, driver authors will migrate to it because it's easier for
> them, and their bug reports become clearer, and sysadmins get happier.
Thanks for saying that out loud.
So, IOW, IBM makes the API, and expects everyone else to step up and do
the huge amount of grunt work... Nice.
"If it's done right," there need not be massive changes at all.
More tomorrow.
Jeff, just another unpaid IBM worker...
In message <[email protected]> you write:
> So, IOW, IBM makes the API, and expects everyone else to step up and do
> the huge amount of grunt work... Nice.
Like those zero-copy guys who didn't port all the drivers? Or those
NAPI guys? Bastards! 8)
> "If it's done right," there need not be massive changes at all.
> More tomorrow.
Hmm, is this like "how do you keep an idiot in suspense?" 8)
> Jeff, just another unpaid IBM worker...
Yes, back to the salt mines, Jeff! YA!
Rusty.
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