Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751245Ab3CAOwq (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Mar 2013 09:52:46 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:10243 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750709Ab3CAOwp (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Mar 2013 09:52:45 -0500 From: Jeff Moyer To: Joern Engel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] printk: add CON_ALLDATA console flag References: <1362087602-8979-1-git-send-email-joern@logfs.org> <1362087602-8979-4-git-send-email-joern@logfs.org> X-PGP-KeyID: 1F78E1B4 X-PGP-CertKey: F6FE 280D 8293 F72C 65FD 5A58 1FF8 A7CA 1F78 E1B4 X-PCLoadLetter: What the f**k does that mean? Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:52:27 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1362087602-8979-4-git-send-email-joern@logfs.org> (Joern Engel's message of "Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:39:56 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 801 Lines: 19 Joern Engel writes: > For consoles like netconsole and blockconsole the loglevel filtering > really doesn't make any sense. If a line gets printed at all, please > send it down to that console, no questions asked. Could you please explain this a bit further? Why wouldn't you want to allow the admin to filter log messages to the block or network console? This doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, and in fact could cause problems for netconsole now that you're potentially sending a ton more traffic over the wire. Cheers, Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/