Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Apr 2020 14:18:28 +0200 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] printk: Add loglevel for "do not print to consoles". |
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On Tue 28-04-20 20:33:21, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > On 2020/04/27 15:21, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > >> KERN_NO_CONSOLES is for type of messages where "saved for later analysis" is > >> important but "printed for immediate notification" is not important. > >> In other words, KERN_NO_CONSOLES is NOT for dying messages where "printed for > >> immediate notification" is important. > > > > per-console loglevel is a user configurable parameter. > > KERN_NO_CONSOLES is a hard-coded policy. > > But given that whether to use KERN_NO_CONSOLES is configurable via e.g. sysctl, > KERN_NO_CONSOLES will become a user configurable parameter. What's still wrong?
How do I as a kernel developer know that KERN_NO_CONSOLES should be used? In other words, how can I assume what a user will consider important on the console?
-- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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