On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:49:32 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 15:17 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:11:43 -0700 > > Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 14:28 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > Unfortunately the <n> thing is part of the kernel ABI: > > > > > > > > echo "<4>foo" > /dev/kmsg > > > > > > Which works the same way it did before. > > > > I didn't say it didn't. > > > > What I did say is that echo "\0014">/dev/kmsg will subvert the intent > > of the new logging code. Or might. But you just ignored all that, > > forcing me to repeat myself, irritatedly. > > It works the same way before and after the patch. > > Any write to /dev/kmsg without a KERN_<LEVEL> > emits at (1 << 3) + KERN_DEFAULT. > > Writes with <n> values >= 8 are emitted at > that level. What about writes starting with \001n? AFACIT, that will be stripped away and the printk level will be altered. This is new behavior. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
