linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v3 1/2] ratelimit: Extend to print suppressed messages on release

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Date:	Tue, 5 Jul 2016 21:42:45 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Franck Bui <fbui@...e.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v3 1/2] ratelimit: Extend to print suppressed messages
 on release

On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 02:57:32PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Perhaps we should show both, unless you don't think this will ever be
> used by anything other than devkmsg?

I'd say let's do it only when we go down that road and start using it
for something else.

Because, for example, the ratelimiting thing is, in fact, generic but it
is used primarily to ratelimit printks. Even though it could be used for
something else, theoretically...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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