On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 16:58 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > echo "\0014Hello Joe" > /dev/kmsg # echo -e "\x014Hello Me" > /dev/kmsg gives: 12,778,4057982669;Hello Me #echo -e "\x011Hello Me_2" > /dev/kmsg gives: 12,779,4140452093;Hello Me_2 I didn't change devkmsg_writev so the original parsing style for "<.>" is unchanged. from printk.c: static ssize_t devkmsg_writev(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iv, unsigned long count, loff_t pos) [...] int level = default_message_loglevel; [...] if (line[0] == '<') { char *endp = NULL; i = simple_strtoul(line+1, &endp, 10); if (endp && endp[0] == '>') { level = i & 7; if (i >> 3) facility = i >> 3; endp++; len -= endp - line; line = endp; } } line[len] = '\0'; printk_emit(facility, level, NULL, 0, "%s", line); [] level is what matters. from dmesg -r <12>[ 2462.339252] \001Hello Andrew <9>[ 2516.023444] Hello Andrew <12>[ 3046.752764] \x01Hello Kay <12>[ 3940.871850] \x01Hello Kay <12>[ 4057.982669] Hello Me <12>[ 4140.452093] Hello Me_2 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel