From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755476AbYIQRIq (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:08:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754220AbYIQRIi (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:08:38 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:42050 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751634AbYIQRIi (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:08:38 -0400 Message-ID: <48D13960.2020902@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:07:44 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080723) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Alexey Dobriyan , Yinghai Lu , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] loglevel=pci:8,acpi:8,apic=8 support v5 References: <1221635415-14859-1-git-send-email-yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> <20080917073058.GA3770@x200.localdomain> <20080917084754.GC24035@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20080917084754.GC24035@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar wrote: > > the subsystem tags should be cut out by dmesg by default, just like the > normal <1> tags are cut out. > [...] > > and it's bad and a showstopper if the default output of 'dmesg' > degrades, like your noticed - those are bugs in the concept and need to > be fixed. > It's probably worth pointing out that we had similar transition pains when we introduced the loglevel tags. If you used an old dmesg/klogd you got the loglevel tags; we cleaned them up. -hpa