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

Borislav Petkov
2013-03-01T14:58:18Z

On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 09:52:27AM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> > For consoles like netconsole and blockconsole the loglevel filtering
> > really doesn't make any sense. If a line gets printed at all, please
> > send it down to that console, no questions asked.
>
> Could you please explain this a bit further? Why wouldn't you want to
> allow the admin to filter log messages to the block or network console?
> This doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, and in fact could cause
> problems for netconsole now that you're potentially sending a ton more
> traffic over the wire.

Let's reverse the question: why would the admin ever want to filter
messages to debugging consoles like netconsole or blockconsole?

When running a debugging session, you generally want to see *all*
messages.

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