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From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
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On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 03:40:22AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> IMHO something that mentions /proc/sys/kernel/printk would be better.
> 
> You don't need to have built with SysRq support for that, it's clearly
> more flexible than the ignore_loglevel option and wouldn't require a
> reboot either. I'll send out an updated patch shortly.

	Why not dmesg -n?  We've been using that for years.  Or is there
some extra change in /proc/sys/kernel/printk?

Joel

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Joel Becker
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