On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 04:37:33PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > 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 Might it be worthwhile adding a "_log" function that can take an arbitrary string so in future it is easy to add new log messages? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs