Re: [RFC PATCH] cmdline: Hide "debug" from /proc/cmdline

Andrew Morton
2014-04-04T18:52:29Z

On Fri, 4 Apr 2014 11:42:51 -0700 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Most users will never notice. The whole "writable /dev/kmsg" may go
> back to 2002, but there aren't _that_ many users, and pretty much all
> I've ever seen tend to write the occasional "I started up" messages or
> other very small notes. I had to write a test-script to trigger even
> the (very draconian) default ratelimits.

Is there anything here that we really need to fix? What goes wrong if
we leave kmsg as-is and systemd gets fixed?