linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/9] blockconsole: use CON

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Message-ID: <20130301163128.GA16713@logfs.org>
Date:	Fri, 1 Mar 2013 11:31:28 -0500
From:	Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] blockconsole: use CON_ALLDATA

On Fri, 1 March 2013 18:52:20 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 11:20:29AM -0500, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > If you and/or other people are strongly opposed to the CON_ALLDATA
> > patches, I can either keep them private (we will never drop them from
> > our kernel) or add a config option.
> 
> We'll do that when someone comes up with a really persuasive reason why
> blockconsole shouldn't log *all* messages. And, whatever we do, I don't
> want to configure/set anything so that blockconsole logs everything - it
> should be the default.

For blockconsole I agree.  Netconsole is the interesting one, because
CON_ALLDATA could be considered a regression for it.

Jörn

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