Re: Large block device patch, part 1 of 9

Giacomo Catenazzi (cate@debian.org)
Tue, 03 Dec 2002 18:48:03 +0100


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:
>
>>
>> kprintf would be better
>
> >
>
> Why? We don't have, say, kstrcpy() or ksscanf() for other functions
> that are library-equivalent.

k to remember people that it is not the std function, thus not a write to
the standard output. I see more like fprintf (file) and [v]sprintf (string),
we write to a special buffer ("klog").
But if we don't move the verbosity level out of string, also the simple
'printf' would be fine.

ciao
giacomo

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