Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752510Ab2EMSBy (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2012 14:01:54 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f172.google.com ([209.85.212.172]:64925 "EHLO mail-wi0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751571Ab2EMSBx (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2012 14:01:53 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4FAFB57C.40906@teksavvy.com> References: <1336475689.1179.12.camel@mop> <1336571457.30189.29.camel@joe2Laptop> <20120509230649.GA10695@kroah.com> <1336617045.25027.2.camel@mop> <20120511151944.GA6990@kroah.com> <4FAFB57C.40906@teksavvy.com> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 11:01:31 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Rd41rgrXga14tanVOCBKyHWApj8 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/3] printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length record buffer To: Mark Lord Cc: Sasha Levin , Kay Sievers , Greg KH , Yinghai Lu , Joe Perches , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 679 Lines: 18 On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Mark Lord wrote: > > Look in syslog ? That usually requires root permission, so it's an extra (annoying) step. It also gives all kinds or other mostly irrelevant information for a kernel person. Besides, according to the same argument, dmesg shouldn't have times *at*all*. So the "look in your syslog" is pointless for discussing the dmesg timestamp. Linus -- 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/