Messages in this thread | | | From | Jeff Moyer <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/9] printk: add CON_ALLDATA console flag | Date | Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:42:16 -0500 |
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Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> writes:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 10:08:00AM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote: >> People don't just use this for "debugging sessions." They use it in >> production, and I already gave you one reason why you might not want >> to do this with netconsole (udp is unreliable, and I've definitely >> seem cases where netconsole suffered due to dropped packets; this >> won't make that better, especially when you multiply the extra bytes >> times the number of servers on the subnet). > > Ok, so we probably need to drop 4/9 for netconsole.
I don't think you've provided a very strong case for ignoring the administrator's configuration settings. I'm against the patches that introduce this behaviour, for whatever that's worth (2 cents is the going rate, I think).
Cheers, Jeff
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