From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Rajeev Kumar <rajeev_kumar@mentor.com>,
dwmw2@infradead.org, computersforpeace@gmail.com,
dedekind1@gmail.com, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] MTD: UBI: speed up init by moving status messages to debugfs
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 22:39:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <579678EE.4010408@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160725164708.GB7540@kroah.com>
Am 25.07.2016 um 18:47 schrieb Greg KH:
> 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.
I know, but today I'm less sadistic than usual and allow users to keep their
stuff.
Rajeev's issue is not related to UBI and can be solved in a generic and sane
way using loglevels. So there is no need to change the existing logging.
Thanks,
//richard
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-25 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-25 9:46 [PATCH 1/2] MTD: UBI: speed up init by moving status messages to debugfs Rajeev Kumar
2016-07-25 9:46 ` [PATCH 2/2] ubi: attach: do not return -EINVAL if the mtd->numeraseregions is 1 Rajeev Kumar
2016-07-25 10:31 ` Richard Weinberger
2016-07-25 11:16 ` Rajeev Kumar
2016-07-25 11:20 ` Richard Weinberger
2016-07-29 18:24 ` Brian Norris
2016-08-04 6:30 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2016-09-23 11:20 ` Chugh, Sanjeev
2016-09-23 11:37 ` Chugh, Sanjeev
2016-10-26 12:26 ` Chugh, Sanjeev
2016-07-25 10:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] MTD: UBI: speed up init by moving status messages to debugfs Richard Weinberger
2016-07-25 11:23 ` Rajeev Kumar
2016-07-25 11:32 ` Richard Weinberger
2016-07-25 16:47 ` Greg KH
2016-07-25 20:39 ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
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