The patch titled
Subject: printk: improve the description of /dev/kmsg line format
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
printk-improve-the-description-of-dev-kmsg-line-format.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/printk-improve-the-description-of-dev-kmsg-line-format.patch
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http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/printk-improve-the-description-of-dev-kmsg-line-format.patch
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From: Antonio Ospite <ao2@xxxxxx>
Subject: printk: improve the description of /dev/kmsg line format
The comment about /dev/kmsg does not mention the additional values which
may actually be exported, fix that.
Also move up the part of the comment instructing the users to ignore these
additional values, this way the reading is more fluent and logically
compact.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite <ao2@xxxxxx>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/printk/printk.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff -puN kernel/printk/printk.c~printk-improve-the-description-of-dev-kmsg-line-format kernel/printk/printk.c
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c~printk-improve-the-description-of-dev-kmsg-line-format
+++ a/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -195,14 +195,14 @@ static int console_may_schedule;
* need to be changed in the future, when the requirements change.
*
* /dev/kmsg exports the structured data in the following line format:
- * "level,sequnum,timestamp;<message text>\n"
+ * "level,sequnum,timestamp[,additional_values, ... ];<message text>\n"
+ *
+ * Users of the export format should ignore possible additional values
+ * separated by ',', and find the message after the ';' character.
*
* The optional key/value pairs are attached as continuation lines starting
* with a space character and terminated by a newline. All possible
* non-prinatable characters are escaped in the "\xff" notation.
- *
- * Users of the export format should ignore possible additional values
- * separated by ',', and find the message after the ';' character.
*/
enum log_flags {
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from ao2@xxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
printk-improve-the-description-of-dev-kmsg-line-format.patch
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