linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ABI: Update dev-kmsg documentation to match current kernel behaviour

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Date:   Fri, 6 Sep 2019 16:32:01 +0200
From:   Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
To:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
Cc:     James Byrne <james.byrne@...gamienergy.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ABI: Update dev-kmsg documentation to match current
 kernel behaviour

On Tue 2019-09-03 14:02:20, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (09/02/19 11:18), James Byrne wrote:
> > Commit 5aa068ea4082 ("printk: remove games with previous record flags")
> > abolished the practice of setting the log flag to 'c' for the first
> > continuation line and '+' for subsequent lines. Now all continuation
> > lines are flagged with 'c' and '+' is never used.
> >
> > Update the 'dev-kmsg' documentation to remove the reference to the
> > obsolete '+' flag. In addition, state explicitly that only 8 bits of the
> > <N> syslog prefix are used for the facility number when writing to
> > /dev/kmsg.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: James Byrne <james.byrne@...gamienergy.com>
> 
> Looks good to me.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>

The patch has been committed into printk.git, branch for-5.4.

Best Regards,
Petr Mladek