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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@math.psu.edu
Subject: Re: klibc and logging
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:54:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020819175429.C17471@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D60F9A6.6020304@zytor.com>; from hpa@zytor.com on Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 06:59:02AM -0700

On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 06:59:02AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I really think this is a bad idea.  The kmsg device has different 
> properties -- for example, you're supposed to tag things with the 
> message importance.  It really matches the syslog(3) interface better. 
> Also, the special case makes me nervous.

Without something like this, it means that effectively the "echo" command
wouldn't be useable, or you'd have to pipe the output of all scripts
through some program/to /dev/kmsg.

Or we just forget logging the messages from initramfs scripts.

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-19 16:50 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
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 [this message]
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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