Re: [folded]kernelh-add-printk_ratelimited-and-pr_level_rl-rename.patch removed from-mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:28:02 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 17:08 -0800, akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > s/_rl/_ratelimited/g
> 
> do we feel this pr_* wankery is worth the hassle? I'd as soon send a
> patch removing all this crap.

I thought it was just me.  No, I find it a net negative, but I don't
work on drivers all day.

otoh, every second driver seems to find it necessary to invent its own
handy printk wrappers, so being able to point people at standardized
ones does offer some improvement over that.

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