From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932510AbXGKL4c (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:56:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762762AbXGKL4U (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:56:20 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.233]:26876 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762887AbXGKL4S (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:56:18 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=qsP54mEMM6PDtiveBWgjdHYeoxD+y0KhpCqP/aT+JdmX3sOnSC5V9DoyKmdKewmzr4gsjMJDWgdhy6JLM7F+we4g+SIFHu2/A5ng+4N4YzMHEyid7UvqlUHpNU/CMu6qfMMtdpntnLmMyECQ3tFj/Xa9MT9kaGJ+oeBw9FtR0hQ= Message-ID: <9a8748490707110456v25b69e1eq5e2f054b4df35cea@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:56:17 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "Satyam Sharma" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 -mm 4/9] netconsole: Add some useful tips to documentation Cc: "Joel Becker" , "Matt Mackall" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , "Keiichi Kii" , Netdev , "Stephen Hemminger" , "Andrew Morton" , "David Miller" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070710091920.23907.96483.sendpatchset@cselinux1.cse.iitk.ac.in> <20070710091941.23907.45658.sendpatchset@cselinux1.cse.iitk.ac.in> <20070710094142.GM11115@waste.org> <200707101434.39938.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> <20070711042036.GR1011@tasint.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/07/07, Satyam Sharma wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Joel Becker wrote: > > 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? > > Yes, "dmesg -n" sounds the most straightforward. There are multiple ways > of course, for some reason I've always used /proc/sys/kernel/printk for > this (which has the extra "feature" that it accepts values greater than > 8 too :-) > Why not mention all the various methods, dmesg -n, /proc/sys/kernel/printk, SysRq, ignore_loglevel ?? -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html