linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] cmdline: Hide "debug" from /proc/cmdline

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Message-ID: <20140403180644.GD21565@kroah.com>
Date:	Thu, 3 Apr 2014 11:06:44 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Tim Bird <tbird20d@...il.com>
Cc:	Måns Rullgård <mans@...sr.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@...hat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] cmdline: Hide "debug" from /proc/cmdline

On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 08:17:33AM -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
> 
> I had no idea systemd was so verbose and was abusing the kernel
> log buffers so badly.  I'm not a big fan of the rate-limiting, as this just
> seems to encourage this kind of abuse.

That was a bug in systemd, and has been fixed up in the latest versions,
so it shouldn't happen anymore, even with debugging enabled.

thanks,

greg k-h
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