On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:40:05 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 17:37 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >> > On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:07:27 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > > 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 >> > >> > That's changed behavior. >> >> Which is an improvement too. > > No it isn't. It exposes internal kernel implementation details in > random weird inexplicable ways. It doesn't seem at all important > though. > >> I very much doubt a single app will change >> because of this. > > I doubt it as well. Yeah, the value of injecting such binary data is kind of questionable. :) Joe, maybe you can change printk_emit() to skip the prefix detection/stripping if a prefix is already passed to the function? Kay _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
