From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Tony Lindgren <tony.lindgren@linux.intel.com>,
kernel-team@fb.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 11/11] printk: Purge default_console_loglevel
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:38:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZzYnf7aJK_vyHjCK@pathway.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3326b5ea5d95bd580c6e4dea9f5703d83e3f913a.1730133890.git.chris@chrisdown.name>
On Mon 2024-10-28 16:46:01, Chris Down wrote:
> default_console_loglevel (then DEFAULT_LOGLEVEL) was created in Linux
> 0.99.13 (September 1993) to power what we now call
> SYSLOG_ACTION_CONSOLE_{ON,OFF}. It was originally hardcoded to 7.
>
> In Linux 2.3.12 (March 1997), Chris Horn made it configurable by sysctl
> through kernel.printk.
>
> Its demise came about in July 2009 in commit 1aaad49e856c ("printk:
> Restore previous console_loglevel when re-enabling logging"), which
> replaces default_console_loglevel with the previously used
> console_loglevel. However, the documentation was never updated, and we
> still kept on telling users that this sets the default value for
> console_loglevel, even though this hasn't been true for over 15 years.
>
> Purge both the documentation and all remaining references to
> default_console_loglevel. It will still be initialised in the sysctl
> array.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Best Regards,
Petr
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-28 16:45 [PATCH v6 00/11] printk: console: Per-console loglevels Chris Down
2024-10-28 16:45 ` [PATCH v6 01/11] printk: Avoid delaying messages that aren't solicited by any console Chris Down
2024-10-28 16:45 ` [PATCH v6 02/11] printk: Use struct console for suppression and extended console state Chris Down
2024-11-08 9:57 ` Petr Mladek
2024-11-15 8:30 ` John Ogness
2024-11-20 4:17 ` Chris Down
2024-11-20 12:03 ` Petr Mladek
2024-10-28 16:45 ` [PATCH v6 03/11] printk: console: Implement core per-console loglevel infrastructure Chris Down
2024-11-08 16:10 ` Petr Mladek
2024-11-12 10:25 ` Petr Mladek
2024-11-14 16:51 ` Petr Mladek
2024-10-28 16:45 ` [PATCH v6 04/11] printk: Support toggling per-console loglevel via syslog() and cmdline Chris Down
2024-11-12 10:56 ` Conflict with FORCE_CON: " Petr Mladek
2024-11-14 19:28 ` Chris Down
2024-11-15 11:41 ` Petr Mladek
2024-11-12 12:59 ` Petr Mladek
2024-11-14 17:14 ` syslog warning: was: " Petr Mladek
2024-11-14 18:53 ` Chris Down
2024-11-15 11:36 ` Petr Mladek
2024-10-28 16:45 ` [PATCH v6 05/11] MAINTAINERS: Mark printk-basics.rst as owned by printk subsystem Chris Down
2024-10-28 23:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-10-28 23:52 ` Chris Down
2024-11-12 13:00 ` Petr Mladek
2024-10-28 16:45 ` [PATCH v6 06/11] printk: console: Introduce sysfs interface for per-console loglevels Chris Down
2024-11-13 15:58 ` Petr Mladek
2024-11-13 15:59 ` register_device: was: " Petr Mladek
2024-11-14 18:41 ` Chris Down
2024-11-15 4:08 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-11-18 15:19 ` Petr Mladek
2024-11-15 4:20 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-11-15 14:09 ` Petr Mladek
2024-11-20 5:01 ` Chris Down
2024-11-20 8:43 ` John Ogness
2024-11-20 14:54 ` Petr Mladek
2024-11-20 15:29 ` John Ogness
2024-11-20 14:45 ` Petr Mladek
2025-01-10 10:27 ` Joel Granados
2025-01-15 10:31 ` Petr Mladek
2024-10-28 16:45 ` [PATCH v6 07/11] printk: Constrain hardware-addressed console checks to name position Chris Down
2024-10-29 8:26 ` Tony Lindgren
2024-11-13 16:11 ` Petr Mladek
2024-10-28 16:45 ` [PATCH v6 08/11] printk: Support setting initial console loglevel via console= on cmdline Chris Down
2024-11-14 9:11 ` Petr Mladek
2024-10-28 16:45 ` [PATCH v6 09/11] printk: Add sysctl interface to set global loglevels Chris Down
2024-11-14 16:21 ` Petr Mladek
2025-01-10 10:09 ` Joel Granados
2024-10-28 16:45 ` [PATCH v6 10/11] printk: Deprecate the kernel.printk sysctl interface Chris Down
2024-11-14 16:25 ` Petr Mladek
2024-10-28 16:46 ` [PATCH v6 11/11] printk: Purge default_console_loglevel Chris Down
2024-11-14 16:38 ` Petr Mladek [this message]
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