Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Jan 2007 23:37:43 -0500 | From | Theodore Tso <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Print sysrq-m messages with KERN_INFO priority |
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On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 08:42:47PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:24:53 -0500 > "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> wrote: > > > Print messages resulting from sysrq-m with a KERN_INFO instead of the > > default KERN_WARNING priority > > hm, I wonder why. If someone does sysrq-<whatever> then they presumably want > to display the result? Tricky. > > Is this patch a consistency thing?
The goal of the patch was to avoid filling /var/log/messages huge amounts of sysrq text. Some of the sysrq commands, especially sysrq-m and sysrq-t emit a truly vast amount of information, and it's not really nice to have that filling up /var/log/messages.
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