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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Yoshihiro YUNOMAE <yoshihiro.yunomae.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>,
	Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>,
	yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Arun KS <arunks.linux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] printk: Add context information to the header of /dev/kmsg
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 23:36:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11176.1400556970@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 May 2014 19:28:38 +0900." <20140519102838.30455.86863.stgit@yunodevel>

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On Mon, 19 May 2014 19:28:38 +0900, Yoshihiro YUNOMAE said:

> The header information is changed as follows:
>    <prefix>,<seq#>,<timestamp>,<fragmented>,<PID>/<interrupt context>;<msg>

Has this been tested with popular userspace that reads /dev/kmsg, to make
sure that it actually plays nice with a 5th field being added?  Yes, I know
that Documentation/ABI/dev-kmsg says that added fields should be gracefully
ignored - but we all know how good userspace programmers are about that
sort of thing. :)

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-20  3:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-19 10:28 [RFC PATCH 0/2] printk: Add context information to kernel messages from /dev/kmsg Yoshihiro YUNOMAE
2014-05-19 10:28 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] printk: Add context information to the header of /dev/kmsg Yoshihiro YUNOMAE
2014-05-19 11:35   ` Kay Sievers
2014-05-26  7:16     ` Yoshihiro YUNOMAE
2014-05-20  3:36   ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2014-05-26  7:18     ` Yoshihiro YUNOMAE
2014-05-19 10:28 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] printk: Simplify fragmented line information of " Yoshihiro YUNOMAE

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