Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751847Ab3CAPmb (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Mar 2013 10:42:31 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:58608 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751219Ab3CAPma (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Mar 2013 10:42:30 -0500 From: Jeff Moyer To: Borislav Petkov Cc: Joern Engel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton 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> <20130301145805.GC30938@pd.tnic> <20130301153100.GD30938@pd.tnic> 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 10:42:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20130301153100.GD30938@pd.tnic> (Borislav Petkov's message of "Fri, 1 Mar 2013 16:31:00 +0100") 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: 1045 Lines: 24 Borislav Petkov writes: > On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 10:08:00AM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote: >> People don't just use this for "debugging sessions." They use it in >> production, and I already gave you one reason why you might not want >> to do this with netconsole (udp is unreliable, and I've definitely >> seem cases where netconsole suffered due to dropped packets; this >> won't make that better, especially when you multiply the extra bytes >> times the number of servers on the subnet). > > Ok, so we probably need to drop 4/9 for netconsole. I don't think you've provided a very strong case for ignoring the administrator's configuration settings. I'm against the patches that introduce this behaviour, for whatever that's worth (2 cents is the going rate, I think). 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/