From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Print sysrq-m messages with KERN_INFO priority
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 23:37:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070102043743.GB15718@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061229204247.be66c972.akpm@osdl.org>
On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 08:42:47PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:24:53 -0500
> "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
>
> > Print messages resulting from sysrq-m with a KERN_INFO instead of the
> > default KERN_WARNING priority
>
> hm, I wonder why. If someone does sysrq-<whatever> then they presumably want
> to display the result? Tricky.
>
> Is this patch a consistency thing?
The goal of the patch was to avoid filling /var/log/messages huge
amounts of sysrq text. Some of the sysrq commands, especially sysrq-m
and sysrq-t emit a truly vast amount of information, and it's not
really nice to have that filling up /var/log/messages.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-02 4:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-30 3:24 [PATCH] Print sysrq-m messages with KERN_INFO priority Theodore Ts'o
2006-12-30 4:42 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-30 4:57 ` Dave Jones
2007-01-02 4:37 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2007-01-02 10:33 ` Alan
2007-01-02 17:28 ` Dave Jones
2007-01-02 18:03 ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-02 18:15 ` Dave Jones
2006-12-30 5:19 ` * *
2007-01-02 4:24 ` Theodore Tso
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