On 4/2/10 7:55 PM, Myles Watson wrote:
loglevel.diff:
Remove BIOS_EMERG, BIOS_ALERT, BIOS_CRIT, BIOS_NOTICE, BIOS_NEVER
I am not convinced that's a good idea. But let's hear what other people say...
I didn't change their numerical values.  They were rarely used. 
BIOS_EMERG, BIOS_ALERT, BIOS_CRIT -> BIOS_ERR
BIOS_NOTICE -> BIOS_INFO
I don't think we want to just remove log levels like that. Let's rather fix the messages and choose the right log levels for them.

BIOS_NEVER -> BIOS_SPEW+1
The whole intent was to make clear to the reader that this is something that's never seen. ;-)
That doesn't become clear from BIOS_SPEW+1 in my opinion.


loglevel2.diff:
BIOS_ERR -> ERROR
BIOS_WARNING -> WARNING
BIOS_INFO -> INFO
BIOS_DEBUG -> DEBUG
BIOS_SPEW -> SPEW
For 80 character line aficionados, this puts most of the lines back, since printk_debug(...) is about the same length as printk(DEBUG, ...)
I kind of like the fact that they are prefixed, while I see the point that BIOS_ is a bad prefix. What about LOG_? Because, that's what it is, log levels.
I like the idea of not abbreviating ERROR to ERR as the only exception to the rule.

Stefan