Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/8] Rework KERN_<LEVEL> | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:49:32 -0700 |
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On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 15:17 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:11:43 -0700 > Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 14:28 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Unfortunately the <n> thing is part of the kernel ABI: > > > > > > echo "<4>foo" > /dev/kmsg > > > > Which works the same way it did before. > > I didn't say it didn't. > > What I did say is that echo "\0014">/dev/kmsg will subvert the intent > of the new logging code. Or might. But you just ignored all that, > forcing me to repeat myself, irritatedly.
It works the same way before and after the patch.
Any write to /dev/kmsg without a KERN_<LEVEL> emits at (1 << 3) + KERN_DEFAULT.
Writes with <n> values >= 8 are emitted at that level.
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