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

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Date:	Tue, 6 May 2014 04:35:35 -0500
From:	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Tim Bird <tbird20d@...il.com>,
	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 3, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 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.

Excellent. Did Kay Sievers accept it was a bug? From what I can see
the bug report is still open[1], and your patch to rename the
configuration to systemd.debug received unanimous consensus in the
mailing list, yet it wasn't applied.

So I bet the answer is no, he never accepted it, and we should expect
these issues to continue... it's only a matter of time before we hit
the next breakage.

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76935

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Felipe Contreras
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