Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751456Ab3CAO6S (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Mar 2013 09:58:18 -0500 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:51049 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750709Ab3CAO6R (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Mar 2013 09:58:17 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 15:58:06 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Jeff Moyer Cc: Joern Engel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] printk: add CON_ALLDATA console flag Message-ID: <20130301145805.GC30938@pd.tnic> Mail-Followup-To: Borislav Petkov , Jeff Moyer , Joern Engel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton References: <1362087602-8979-1-git-send-email-joern@logfs.org> <1362087602-8979-4-git-send-email-joern@logfs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1128 Lines: 28 On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 09:52:27AM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote: > > 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. Let's reverse the question: why would the admin ever want to filter messages to debugging consoles like netconsole or blockconsole? When running a debugging session, you generally want to see *all* messages. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. -- -- 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/