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

[Dave Young]

On 09/23/15 at 10:49am, Baoquan He wrote:
> On 09/23/15 at 09:37am, Dave Young wrote:
> > > > Hi, Dave.
> > > > 
> > > > How about removing all of the prefix "crashkernel" in kexec_core. Thus
> > > > we can be consistent with the output message prefix "kexec".
> > > 
> > > Ping, any comment is appreciate and helpful.
> > 
> > Remove "crashkernel" sounds not a proper way, it indicates crashkernel parsing
> > messages. I have no idea what is the best way but below modification sounds better to me:
> > 
> > kexec_core.c:
> > 
> > #define pr_fmt(fmt)        "[kexec_core] " fmt
> > Also remove below prefix "Kexec:"
> > pr_warn("Kexec: Memory allocation for saving cpu register states failed\n"); 
> > 
> > kexec.c:
> > #define pr_fmt(fmt)        "[kexec] " fmt
> > 
> > kexec_file.c:
> > #define pr_fmt(fmt)        "[kexec_file] " fmt
> 
> This is weird, user really don't need to know each file. I saw you added
> a new file kexec_internal.h and all three files includes it. Why not doing
> it there to make it the same as before?

I personally do not like add these prefix to a header file. One prefix for
a c file is better to me.

But rethinking about the prefix, looks like there's a lot of other components
using ":" so KBUILD_MODNAME ": "  should be fine.

Thanks
Dave