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

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707111120120.10373@cselinux1.cse.iitk.ac.in>
Date:	Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:35:03 +0530 (IST)
From:	Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@....iitk.ac.in>
To:	Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@...cle.com>
cc:	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.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 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 :-)

Satyam
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