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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:16:30 +0100
From: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
To: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk timestamp post-boot suppression
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:16:13AM -0400, Joe Korty wrote:

> Its utility after boot is questionable, since 1) the
> timestamp becomes a rather large, unreadable integer,
> as the hours, days and weeks go by, and 2) syslog does
> a proper TOD timestamp anyways on these later messages,
> as they go into /var/log/messages.

It'd be nicer if this were optional - syslog typically only logs at
second resolution and not all systems are going to have logfiles.
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