netdev - Re: [PATCH] netconsole: Append kernel version to message

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Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2023 11:34:10 -0700
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To: leitao@...ian.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet
 <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni
 <pabeni@...hat.com>, sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com, pmladek@...e.com,
 tj@...nel.or, Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
 (open list:NETWORKING DRIVERS), linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netconsole: Append kernel version to message

On Mon,  3 Jul 2023 08:41:54 -0700
leitao@...ian.org wrote:

> +config NETCONSOLE_UNAME
> +	bool "Add the kernel version to netconsole lines"
> +	depends on NETCONSOLE
> +	default n
> +	help
> +	  This option causes extended netcons messages to be prepended with
> +	  kernel uname version. This can be useful for monitoring a large
> +	  deployment of servers, so, you can easily map outputs to kernel
> +	  versions.

This should be runtime configured like other netconsole options.
Not enabled at compile time.