printk

[Simon Glass]

Hi Heinrich,

On Sun, 31 May 2020 at 09:34, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hello Simon,
>
> in some drivers we use printk() which is restricted by CONFIG_LOGLEVEL
> and translates to printf().
>
> Shouldn't printk() be translated to log() instead?
>
> CONFIG_LOGLEVEL probably should better be renamed to
> CONFIG_PRINTK_LOGLEVEL to avoid confusion.
>
> And those different levels like KERN_WARNING should probably be properly
> defined to translate into out log levels.

Yes definitely. I have been thinking about those things for a while,
not to mention dev_err() and friends.

Regards,
Simon