Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765492AbXE2UJg (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 16:09:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757390AbXE2UJ3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 16:09:29 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.13]:34338 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750897AbXE2UJ2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 16:09:28 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 13:07:05 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Randy Dunlap Cc: lkml , rene.herman@gmail.com, mjt@tls.msk.ru, Jan Engelhardt Subject: Re: [PATCH] use printk.time option, drop time/notime Message-Id: <20070529130705.fdf43e4b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070524171535.329ea2c0.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> References: <20070522120938.db67f1e9.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <4655BC2D.2070701@oracle.com> <20070524171535.329ea2c0.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 929 Lines: 21 On Thu, 24 May 2007 17:15:35 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote: > Allow printk_time to be enabled or disabled at boot time. > Previously it could be enabled only, but not disabled. > > Change printk_time from an int to a bool since that's what it is. > Make its logical (exposed) name just be "time" (was "printk_time"). > > Note: Changes kernel boot option syntax from "time" to "printk.time=value". That's going to break a *lot* of people's setups - timestamping appears to be very popular. We will get sad emails from people. If we're going to do this then I'm afraid we should retain the `time=' thing for a while and add a this-is-going-away printk to it. - 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/