linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/4] Add <linux/klog.h>

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Date:	Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:25:55 +0100
From:	Vincent Legoll <vlegoll@...line.fr>
To:	Zack Weinberg <zackw@...ix.com>
Cc:	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>, jmorris@...ei.org,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] Add <linux/klog.h>

Zack Weinberg wrote:
> This patch introduces <linux/klog.h> with symbolic constants for the
> various sys_syslog() opcodes, and changes all in-kernel references to
> those opcodes to use the constants.  The header is added to the set of
> user/kernel interface headers.

[...]

> -/*
> - * Commands to do_syslog:
> +/**
> + * do_syslog - operate on the log of kernel messages
> + * @type: operation to perform
> + * @buf: user-space buffer to copy data into
> + * @len: number of bytes of space available at @buf
> + *
> + * See include/linux/klog.h for the command numbers passed as @type.
> + * The @buf and @len parameters are used with the above meanings for
> + * @type values %KLOG_READ, %KLOG_READ_HIST and %KLOG_READ_CLEAR_HIST.
> + * @len is reused with a different meaning, and @buf ignored, for
> + * %KLOG_SET_CONSOLE_LVL.  Both @buf and @len are ignored for all
> + * other @type values.
>   *
> - * 	0 -- Close the log.  Currently a NOP.
> - * 	1 -- Open the log. Currently a NOP.
> - * 	2 -- Read from the log.
> - * 	3 -- Read all messages remaining in the ring buffer.
> - * 	4 -- Read and clear all messages remaining in the ring buffer
> - * 	5 -- Clear ring buffer.
> - * 	6 -- Disable printk's to console
> - * 	7 -- Enable printk's to console
> - *	8 -- Set level of messages printed to console
> - *	9 -- Return number of unread characters in the log buffer
> - *     10 -- Return size of the log buffer
> + * On failure, returns a negative errno code.  On success, returns a
> + * nonnegative integer whose meaning depends on @type.
>   */
>  int do_syslog(int type, char __user *buf, int len)
>  {
> @@ -190,11 +192,11 @@

That part looks good to me, and the kernel-doc hunks from
"[patch 3/4] Refactor do_syslog interface"
too, are:

Acked-by: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@...il.com>

thanks for handling that.

-- 
Vincent Legoll
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