Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:47:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:47:40 -0500 Received: from [195.66.192.167] ([195.66.192.167]:37132 "EHLO Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:47:35 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: vda To: Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , Marcelo Tosatti Subject: [PATCH] printk loglevel cleanup (again) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:43:30 -0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01112717433007.00872@manta> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Since we are past 2.5.0 point, I hope this patch have better chances, at least for 2.5.x :-) Primary purpose of this patch is to make KERN_WARNING and KERN_INFO log levels closer to their original meaning. Today they are quite far from what was intended. Just look what kernel writes at the WARNING level each time you boot your box! When I was making this patch I couldn't resist and fixed messed up tabs around affected printks, wrapped some lines longer than 80 columns, fixed some typos. My formatting preferences: * log entries are started with capital letters except for function/modules names in lowercase or acronyms (IDE etc) * Dot before \n is a waste of space * colon style: "Foo: blah blan" (not "Foo : blah" or "Foo: Blah") But I'm not a religious fanatic: it ok to disagree with me :-) You can see in the patch that I wasn't overly distracted by this decorative work. I'm doing my best trying not to break working code. However, if you feel paranoid today you may remove any hunk of this patch you may deem suspicious and apply the rest - all these changes are independent of each other, you may even just ignore rejects if you are patching newer/older kernel! If you like this patch but have more interesting things to play with, you may do the following: * clear your logs * reconfigure syslogd to spew warnings to /var/log/syslog.warnings * reboot * mail boot time "warnings" which you think are not warnings but info only ("104-key keyboard detected"-type msgs) to me - I'll add fixes for those to this patch Go to: http://port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua/linux/vda/ -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/