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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	tony@bakeyournoodle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	benh@kernel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Silence 'ignoring return value' warnings in drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 21:26:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080506212643.444b96db.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080506212314.695daf98.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, 6 May 2008 21:23:14 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> otcompletelyoh, perhaps we could generate a backtrace from within printk()
> itself for when it sees messages which have KERN_ERR or some other
> suitably-chosen (and probably configurable) facility level.

and if that is impractical, perhaps create a new printk facility
(KERN_TRACE?) which gets rewritten to KERN_ERR, but tells printk()
to generate a trace.

Do we really need the file-n-line info?

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-07  4:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-24  4:34 [PATCH] Silence 'ignoring return value' warnings in drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c Tony Breeds
2008-05-06 21:39 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-06 21:43   ` David Miller
2008-05-06 21:56     ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-07  4:00       ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-07  4:12         ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-07  4:15           ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-07  4:20             ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-07  4:37               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-07  4:23             ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-07  4:26               ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-05-07  4:41                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-07  4:37               ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-07  5:40           ` Paul Mackerras
2008-05-07  5:49             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-07  0:54     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-07  1:20       ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-07  4:33         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-07  8:23           ` Cornelia Huck
2008-05-07 21:43             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-08  7:34               ` Cornelia Huck
2008-05-08  7:49                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-08  8:36                   ` Cornelia Huck
2008-05-08 22:03                     ` Greg KH
2008-05-08 23:06                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-08 23:50                       ` Paul Mackerras
2008-05-09  0:02                         ` Harvey Harrison
2008-05-09  5:32                           ` Cornelia Huck
2008-05-09  5:33                           ` Cornelia Huck

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