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Re: [PATCH] kexec: Add prefix "kexec" to output message

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On 09/14/15 at 04:44pm, Dave Young wrote:
> On 09/14/15 at 03:50pm, Minfei Huang wrote:
> > On 09/13/15 at 11:52am, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > > Minfei Huang <mnfhuang@gmail.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > > kexec output message misses the prefix "kexec", when Dave Young split
> > > > the kexec code. To keep the same format, add the prefix "kexec" to
> > > > output message.
> > > 
> > > What of kexec_core? What of the messages that already have a prefix?
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi, Eric.
> > 
> > Last commit(2965fa), Dave Young (dyoung@redhatcom) split the previous
> > kernel/kexec.c into three pieces(kexec_core.c, kexec_file.c, kexec.c).
> > The common functions used by both kexec and kexec_file are placed in
> > file kernel/kexec_core.c.
> > 
> > The format of the output message likes "kexec: SYSC_kexec_load: hello,
> > world" previously. Due to the missing prefix "kexec", now it like
> > "SYSC_kexec_load: hello, world".
> > 
> > Dave Young misses the Macro pr_fmt to define the prefix output message
> > in file kexec.c and kexec_file.c. I think the previous Macro was moved
> > into the file kexec_core.c when Dave did the splitting.
> 
> I'm not sure it is proper to add prefix "kexec: " in all kexec*.c, so
> only keep it in kexec_core.c.
> 
> There's already printks with prefix like "Kexec:", "crashkernel:" and
> other strings. Adding another prefix before them looks odd. So either remove 
> the prefix in kexec_core, or remove other prefixes already exists in kexec*.c
> I would prefix to remove the "kexec:" prefix in kexec_core.c

Hi, Dave.

How about removing all of the prefix "crashkernel" in kexec_core. Thus
we can be consistent with the output message prefix "kexec".

Thanks
Minfei
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[PATCH] kexec: Add prefix "kexec" to output message Minfei Huang <mnfhuang@gmail.com> - 2015-09-13 09:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] kexec: Add prefix "kexec" to output message ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2015-09-13 19:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] kexec: Add prefix "kexec" to output message Minfei Huang <mnfhuang@gmail.com> - 2015-09-14 10:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] kexec: Add prefix "kexec" to output message Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> - 2015-09-14 10:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] kexec: Add prefix "kexec" to output message Minfei Huang <mnfhuang@gmail.com> - 2015-09-15 05:10 +0200

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