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Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:17:25 +0100
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:22:23 -0800
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:

> What are the negatives of using pr_<level>?

pr_ is really just for "I am a driver and want a single line message
out in a standardized format".
Nothing wrong with that.

But here you are changing fundamental kernel outputs in the style of an
oops message. Multiline, complex and machine parsed things...


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