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Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 12:21:35 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] printk: Add kernel parameter to control writes to
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* Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:

> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> 
> Add a "printk.kmsg" kernel command line parameter which controls how
> userspace writes into /dev/kmsg. It has two options:
> 
> * on  - unlimited logging from userspace
> * off - logging from userspace gets ignored

Please also add a sysctl!

I *so* want to enable this on distro kernels without having to reboot the 
kernel...

Thanks,

	Ingo