From: Huang Ying Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 08:48:09 +0000 (+0800) Subject: x86, mce: Add HW_ERR printk prefix for hardware error logging X-Git-Tag: v2.6.36-rc1~508^2~1 X-Git-Url: https://bbs.cooldavid.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c6de9f08912311ddc1b3502b90e10fd449acd401;p=net-next-2.6.git x86, mce: Add HW_ERR printk prefix for hardware error logging This makes hardware error related log in printk log more explicit. So that the users can report it to hardware vendor instead of LKML or software vendor. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto LKML-Reference: <1275295689.3444.462.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h index 8317ec4b9f3..3bf740bb069 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernel.h +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -247,6 +247,13 @@ extern struct pid *session_of_pgrp(struct pid *pgrp); #define FW_WARN "[Firmware Warn]: " #define FW_INFO "[Firmware Info]: " +/* + * HW_ERR + * Add this to a message for hardware errors, so that user can report + * it to hardware vendor instead of LKML or software vendor. + */ +#define HW_ERR "[Hardware Error]: " + #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args) __attribute__ ((format (printf, 1, 0)));