Re: [PATCH 3/9] printk: add CON_ALLDATA console flag

Borislav Petkov
2013-03-01T15:58:31Z

On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 10:42:16AM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> I don't think you've provided a very strong case for ignoring the

Maybe you should've looked at the 5/9 commit message - there's your
strong case.

> administrator's configuration settings. I'm against the patches that
> introduce this behaviour, for whatever that's worth (2 cents is the
> going rate, I think).

I'm fine with netconsole retaining old behavior since people reportedly
use it not only as a debugging console.

blockconsole, OTOH, is purely a debugging console and has to log
*everything* *out-of-the-box* once the block device is plugged in. No
configuration, no user intervention, no admin fiddling with whatever.

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