linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 -mm 4/9] netconsole: Add some useful tips to documentation

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Message-ID: <9a8748490707110456v25b69e1eq5e2f054b4df35cea@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:56:17 +0200
From:	"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To:	"Satyam Sharma" <ssatyam@....iitk.ac.in>
Cc:	"Joel Becker" <Joel.Becker@...cle.com>,
	"Matt Mackall" <mpm@...enic.com>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Keiichi Kii" <k-keiichi@...jp.nec.com>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Stephen Hemminger" <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 -mm 4/9] netconsole: Add some useful tips to documentation

On 11/07/07, Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@....iitk.ac.in> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Joel Becker wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 03:40:22AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> > > IMHO something that mentions /proc/sys/kernel/printk would be better.
> > >
> > > You don't need to have built with SysRq support for that, it's clearly
> > > more flexible than the ignore_loglevel option and wouldn't require a
> > > reboot either. I'll send out an updated patch shortly.
> >
> >       Why not dmesg -n?  We've been using that for years.  Or is there
> > some extra change in /proc/sys/kernel/printk?
>
> Yes, "dmesg -n" sounds the most straightforward. There are multiple ways
> of course, for some reason I've always used /proc/sys/kernel/printk for
> this (which has the extra "feature" that it accepts values greater than
> 8 too :-)
>
Why not mention all the various methods, dmesg -n,
/proc/sys/kernel/printk, SysRq, ignore_loglevel  ??

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