On 19 Dec 2002, Juan Quintela wrote: > maciej> Why is the default log level incorrect here? > > The problem (not here in general), is that if printk's use the default > log level, then you as a user has no way to raise/lower the default > log level (i.e. the messages that you want to printk or not). Well, the default level is KERN_WARNING and can be changed using sysctl. Otherwise it's handled identically to explicitly tagged messages -- you may control direct console output with the same sysctl. Obviously there are printks that beg for an explicit tag. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +