Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Apr 2014 17:17:09 -0400 | From | "John Stoffel" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] cmdline: Hide "debug" from /proc/cmdline |
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>>>>> "Linus" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
Linus> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote: >> >> The other thing I've used /dev/kmsg for is to shove a "I'm starting >> something now" message in. This is only really necessary because the >> current kernel log timestamps are unusable crap. (We could fix that, >> hint hint.)
Linus> I'd actually love to fix that, but I disagree with the "we could fix Linus> it". There are tons of people who know how to parse them (admittedly Linus> often only to ignore them), so changing the format is not likely to Linus> work.
Linus> The good news is that "dmesg -H" does help if you're Linus> human. While at the same time being an example of that very Linus> "there are tools that know about the current horrid format" Linus> issue.. D'oh.
I think you mean "dmesg -T", and unfortunately it seems Debian 6.0.9 (or older) doesn ship a new enough linux-util since I've only got 2.17.2-9 install.
And RHEL/Centos 5.6 and 6.5 don't seem to ship that by default either, they have got util-linux-2.13-0.56.el5 and util-linux-ng-2.17.2-12.14.el6.x86_64 respectively. Blech! It's in Linux Mint 16 at least, haven't checked older versions.
John
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