Re: [RFC] New kernel-message logging API (take 2)

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Sep 27 2007 23:18, Vegard Nossum wrote:
>  * kprint_<level>() is better than kprint(<level), ) because in the
>    case of the default log-level, the argument can be omitted.
>  * Memory allocated for entries and arguments is done in a ring-buffer
>    with variable-sized chunks. Arguments are chained with a singly-
>    linked list.
>  * Use SUBSYSTEM and KBUILD_MODNAME
>  * Rename kprint buffers to kprint blocks

This is overall, quite a lot. I suggest one-thing-at-a-time,
starting with kprint_<level>() that is compiled out if desired
and no fancy block or newline stuff.

_Then_, will see how it flies. All of this smells like a bit of
overdesigning, aka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAGNI
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