Re: [PATCH] mmc: print message if a card supports secure erase/trim

Alexander Holler
2015-01-27T17:38:36Z

Am 27.01.2015 um 18:24 schrieb Steven Rostedt:

> For most people a message in dmesg is not very useful. What you are asking for
> is to print a characteristic of a device. Something that someone might want to
> check much later in boot, where, as Boris stated, the dmesg could have been
> flushed (by systemd, which loves to write stuff to the kernel buffers), and
> there's no way to find out this information. The print message is long gone.
> Having a static location like sysfs is the proper place, because user space
> tools can always access it.
>
> Is this something a tool would like to find out? If so, parsing dmesg is not
> the way to go. Looking it up in sysfs is.

Oh, systemd.

Anyway, I like(d) Linux because it didn't had a splash screen and used
to spit out all types of information on the screen where it could be
easily seen or found (in contrast other OS which try to hide all
technical details from users).

Of course, times are changing, including the amount of stuff printed on
screen. But I still find it much much easier to grep on the output of
dmesg than to search through thousands files in sysfs. Even if that can
be done with grep too (kind of). But it's much more complicated because
grep doesn't connect the file name with the content, so you need more
complicated stuff to combine both in order to search for and find
something in sysfs.

Regards,

Alexander Holler