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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: klibc and logging
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:54:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020813135405.A12730@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ajbgbf$7e7$1@cesium.transmeta.com>; from hpa@zytor.com on Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 10:41:03AM -0700

On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 10:41:03AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Requires too much to work before it's can be made available.
> 
> Andrew Morton sent me a proposed patch last night which adds a klogctl
> (a.k.a. sys_syslog) which does a printk() from userspace.  It was less
> than 10 lines; i.e. probably worth it.  I have hooked this up to
> syslog(3) in klibc, although the code is not checked in yet.

Rather, why not have the file descriptor early userspace gets called 
with point to a file that printk's whatever is written to it?  That 
makes more sense as the early init stuff really should end up in the 
kernel's log buffer.

		-ben
-- 
"You will be reincarnated as a toad; and you will be much happier."

  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-13 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-13  7:12 klibc and logging H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-13  7:52 ` Erik Andersen
2002-08-13  8:04   ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-13 10:12     ` Erik Andersen
2002-08-13 10:38       ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-13 14:27         ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-08-13 18:05         ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-13  9:42 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2002-08-13 17:41   ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-13 17:54     ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2002-08-13 17:59       ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-13 17:55     ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-08-16  5:05     ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-08-19 13:27 ` Russell King
2002-08-19 13:59   ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-19 16:54     ` Russell King
2002-08-19 16:58       ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-19 17:25         ` Russell King
2002-08-19 17:27           ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-19 17:29           ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-19 19:37             ` Alan Cox
2002-08-19 19:40               ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-20 13:22       ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-20 14:45         ` Russell King

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