linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19-rc5 breaks klogd 1.4.1

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Date:	Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:11:04 +0100
From:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	John Wendel <jwendel10@...cast.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc5 breaks klogd 1.4.1

On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 23:35 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

> And, predictably, reads from /proc/kmsg aren't blocking.
> 
> I can't see what might have caused that.  Are you sure that 2.6.19-rc4 was
> OK?  And are you sure that nothing else has changed on that system?

Here, both rc4 and rc5 do the same if printk is configured out.

Why do we have a /proc/ksmg when nothing can get to it?

	-Mike

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