Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 13 May 2012 09:22:04 -0400 | | From | Mark Lord <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/3] printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length record buffer |
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On 12-05-12 02:35 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > (b) The one thing I have often wanted is not "after how many seconds > of boot", but "when". So it would actually be nice if the absolute > time was converted into local time. The kernel can actually do that, > so I suspect that the best format for the relative timestamps would > really be something like > > > [May12 11:27] foo > > [May12 11:28] bar > > [ +5.077527] zoot > > [ +10.235225] foo > > [ +0.002971] bar > > [May12 11:29] zoot > > [ +0.003081] foo > > because that would be really useful sometimes. > > (And no, never mind the year. If you log those things long-term, the > year will be in the full log, so logging the year in the dmesg is just > pointless.) > > I dunno. The above is what I would have liked to see quite often. I > look at dmesg, and notice that I had an WARN_ON_ONCE in it, and I have > no idea when it happened, because the "seconds since boot" is totally > useless information for me, as I'm too lazy to try to use /proc/uptime > to calculate what it is.
Look in syslog ?
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