Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Mar 2013 15:58:06 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/9] printk: add CON_ALLDATA console flag |
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On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 09:52:27AM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote: > > For consoles like netconsole and blockconsole the loglevel filtering > > really doesn't make any sense. If a line gets printed at all, please > > send it down to that console, no questions asked. > > Could you please explain this a bit further? Why wouldn't you want to > allow the admin to filter log messages to the block or network console? > This doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, and in fact could cause > problems for netconsole now that you're potentially sending a ton more > traffic over the wire.
Let's reverse the question: why would the admin ever want to filter messages to debugging consoles like netconsole or blockconsole?
When running a debugging session, you generally want to see *all* messages.
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