linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/3] printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length record buffer

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Date:	Tue, 8 May 2012 15:57:29 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartmann <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>
Cc:	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/3] printk: convert byte-buffer to
 variable-length record buffer

On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 06:27:42PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > What about PRINTK_TIME? Are there plans to enable it on console output?
> 
> Yeah, we should restore the old behaviour. The timestamp is always
> stored internally, regardless of the CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or tunable
> setting. At the moment, seems they are only (conditionally) added to
> the syslog() output and (unconditionally) to the /dev/kmsg export.
> 
> I guess we just re-define CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME and the tunable as: "show
> time in syslog() and on the console output".

That would be good to put back, can you do that?

thanks,

greg k-h
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