On Thu, September 16, 2010 3:49 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :We have quite a few kprintf's in the kernel that do not necessarily > :report error conditions, they are purely informational and highlight > :odd or rare cases that often the end-user of the operating system > :really doesn't need to know about. This has been discussed quite a few > :times on IRC. > : > :I would like to put these under a sysctl like kern.developer and wrap > :them in a function like dkprintf unless anyone has any major > :objections. (I'm open to suggestions on the naming). > : > :Sam > > I'd rather not. If any of them have becoming annoying we can > remove them after a quick code review in irc.
I really like the sysctl idea. If not that, could we at least print them differently? Right now, all messages appear equally catastrophic.
