From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754693AbYISSjv (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:39:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752617AbYISSjm (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:39:42 -0400 Received: from byss.tchmachines.com ([208.76.80.75]:33974 "EHLO byss.tchmachines.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752129AbYISSjm (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:39:42 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:39:36 -0700 From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai To: Marcin Slusarz Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: Print cpuid along with the timestamp with CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME Message-ID: <20080919183936.GA28992@localdomain> References: <20080918193720.GA21915@localdomain> <20080918125123.1a76978f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080919003509.GB21915@localdomain> <20080919171516.GB5540@joi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080919171516.GB5540@joi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - byss.tchmachines.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - scalex86.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 07:15:21PM +0200, Marcin Slusarz wrote: > >Do we really need this information on UP kernels? I thought about it, and left it as the way it is to have a consistent format between UP and SMP. With most of the modern cpus being multicore, or headed that way, and since the entire timestamp prefix can be controlled by a boot option, is it worth having different formats for UP and SMP? Most distros ship SMP kernels anyways.