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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, San Mehat <san@google.com>,
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Subject: Re: sched: restore sanity
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On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 09:22:23AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:

> pr_<level> offers some things printk cannot:
> 
> o standardization, eliminates frequent missing KERN_ levels
>   and missing/typo/misspelled module prefixes  
> o visually shorter, fewer chars used, less 80 char wrapping
> o finer grained ability to eliminate unnecessary messages
>   for embedded systems
> o standardized mechanism to prefix messages with module/function
> o eventual code reduction via use of a singleton instead of
>   duplicated module/function names
> o eventual dynamic_debug styled control of prefix by
>   module/function

o leveraging the synergy between make-work job and commit count masturbation
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