linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v3 1/2] ratelimit: Extend to print suppressed messages on release

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Message-ID: <20160705154959.2705b658@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Tue, 5 Jul 2016 15:49:59 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Franck Bui <fbui@...e.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v3 1/2] ratelimit: Extend to print suppressed messages
 on release

On Tue, 5 Jul 2016 21:42:45 +0200
Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 02:57:32PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > Perhaps we should show both, unless you don't think this will ever be
> > used by anything other than devkmsg?  
> 
> I'd say let's do it only when we go down that road and start using it
> for something else.
> 
> Because, for example, the ratelimiting thing is, in fact, generic but it
> is used primarily to ratelimit printks. Even though it could be used for
> something else, theoretically...
> 

But you know... Build it and they will come.

OK, I'm fine then.

-- Steve