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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:05:35 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation of kernel messages
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:04:56 PDT, Joe Perches said:
> 
>> I believe it better to simply add __FILE__ & __LINE__ to the
>> macro rather than some other externally specified unique
>> identifier that adds developer overhead and easily gets stale.
> 
> There's been plenty of times I've wished for that.  Now if we just found a way
> to do something sane for drivers/net/wireless/mac80211/iwlwifi/base.c ;)
> 

Why don't you just redefine the KERN_* macros which is used by almost
every printk in the system to contain said __FILE__ and __LINE__, then?

	-hpa
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