[Ksummit-discuss] Self nomination

[Sasha Levin]

On 07/31/2015 01:26 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> Other than to confuse us all over minute details, is there a reason for
> this difference to exist?  I realise right at the moment dev_dbg can be
> configured off by a variety of symbols and dev_printk(KERN_DEBUG) can't,
> conversely dev_printk doesn't pick up the location information and
> dev_dbg does, but there's no reason all that couldn't be harmonised so
> we didn't have to have arguments about which to use (and endless patches
> switching from one to the other)?

I suppose it's a good sub-topic: deciding which one of the 3.5 methods
to print debug information we should be using across the kernel and
remove the other 2.5.


Thanks,
Sasha