Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Oct 1999 12:14:57 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: devd and device events (was Re: My $0.02 on devd and devfs) |
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Stephen Frost wrote: > > > > IMHO /proc/device_events should be an ASCII list of device events, like > > described previously in this thread. Each line in that list, though, > > would need a timestamp of some sort. > > Hrm. Sounds like a syslog-type thing. Could this be done by passing > data through syslog facilities? >
We could, but then we have to make it stop dropping the first N lines of dmesg before klogd can kick in. I'm not sure if this is such a good idea -- if you never start running klogd, you could end up with a bunch of kernel memory gobbled up by logs.
-hpa
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