On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 05:11:59PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote: > If so, how will disabling dmesg output and switching to a trace event > help? The user-space program will still break unless they add support > for that trace event, right? Well, as yourself this: what happens to a userspace program which relies on this *exact* error message format and greps dmesg? > I'm not sure if we actually provide guarantees w.r.t kernel log > messages. The issue in this specific scenario is the sheer verbosity > of the log messages. No, the issue is what I said above: userspace programs expecting exactly this output. Once we exposed it to userspace, we cannot simply assume that nothing is using it. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html