linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] printk: Add loglevel for "do not print to consoles".

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Date:   Wed, 13 May 2020 09:46:42 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>,
        Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: Add loglevel for "do not print to consoles".

On Wed, 13 May 2020 20:03:53 +0900
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:

> I think that basically only oops (e.g. WARN()/BUG()/panic()) messages worth
> printing to consoles and the rest messages do not worth printing to consoles.
> Existing KERN_$LOGLEVEL is too rough-grained.

And this statement is exactly why I believe you are wrong.

Because *I* think messages to the console is more important than messages
to the logs. Several of my servers are only monitored by the console. I
seldom look at the logs on those machines.

This is a policy decision, and must be made by user space. Your use case is
not applicable to everyone else's use case. And should not be set in stone
by the kernel.

-- Steve