On Tue, 29 May 2007 13:07:05 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > That's going to break a *lot* of people's setups - timestamping appears > to be very popular. We will get sad emails from people. > > If we're going to do this then I'm afraid we should retain the `time=' > thing for a while and add a this-is-going-away printk to it.
[$ checkpatch-v2.pl ~/patch/printk-time-onoff.patch Your patch has no obvious style problems and is ready for submission.] From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Allow printk_time to be enabled or disabled at boot time. Previously it could be enabled only, but not disabled. Change printk_time from an int to a bool since that's what it is. Make its logical (exposed) name just be "time" (was "printk_time"). Note: Changes kernel boot option syntax from "time" to "printk.time=value". Since printk_time is declared as a module_param, it can also be changed at run-time by modifying /sys/module/printk/parameters/time to a value of 1/Y/y to enabled it or 0/N/n to disable it. Since printk_time is declared as a module_param, its value can also be set at boot-time by using linux printk.time=<bool> If the "time" boot option is used, print a message that it is deprecated and will be removed. Note its planned removal in feature-removal-schedule.txt. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 7 +++++++ Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ++++ kernel/printk.c | 5 ++++- 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2622-rc3.orig/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ linux-2622-rc3/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1426,6 +1426,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. autoconfiguration. Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). + printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line + Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) + profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile Format: [schedule,]<number> Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. @@ -1826,6 +1829,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection time Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line + [deprecated, see 'printk.time'] tipar.timeout= [HW,PPT] Set communications timeout in tenths of a second --- linux-2622-rc3.orig/kernel/printk.c +++ linux-2622-rc3/kernel/printk.c @@ -449,13 +449,16 @@ static int printk_time = 1; #else static int printk_time = 0; #endif -module_param(printk_time, int, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR); +module_param_named(time, printk_time, bool, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR); static int __init printk_time_setup(char *str) { if (*str) return 0; printk_time = 1; + printk(KERN_NOTICE "The 'time' option is deprecated and " + "is scheduled for removal in early 2008\n"); + printk(KERN_NOTICE "Use 'printk.time=<value>' instead\n"); return 1; } --- linux-2622-rc3.orig/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ linux-2622-rc3/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -346,3 +346,10 @@ Who: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------- +What: 'time' kernel boot parameter +When: January 2008 +Why: replaced by 'printk.time=<value>' so that printk timestamps can be + enabled or disabled as needed +Who: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + +--------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/