We already log the running test to system logs via "logger" but viro pointed out that we can use /dev/kmsg to insert it into dmesg as well. When looking at the serial console that could be pretty useful. Thanks to viro for the test -w suggestion too. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/check b/check index 268417c..09b2320 100755 --- a/check +++ b/check @@ -457,6 +457,7 @@ do $timestamp && echo -n " ["`date "+%T"`"]" [ ! -x $seq ] && chmod u+x $seq # ensure we can run it $LOGGER_PROG "run xfstest $seqnum" + test -w /dev/kmsg && echo "run xfstest $seqnum" > /dev/kmsg ./$seq >$tmp.rawout 2>&1 sts=$? $timestamp && _timestamp _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs