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On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 01:32:30PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> These days I'd not print all of them. But we do already and I know
> setups which parse dmesg and grep for some of these values.

That's horrid and should not be tolerated, please never grep the kernel
log for anything.

> Either to see whether attach worked or just to gather debug infos for
> QA.
> I don't want to risk breaking existing stuff.

We do not claim that kernel log messages are an "ABI" that can not be
changed or broken at all.

thanks,

greg k-h