On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 09:52:27AM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote: > > For consoles like netconsole and blockconsole the loglevel filtering > > really doesn't make any sense. If a line gets printed at all, please > > send it down to that console, no questions asked. > > Could you please explain this a bit further? Why wouldn't you want to > allow the admin to filter log messages to the block or network console? > This doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, and in fact could cause > problems for netconsole now that you're potentially sending a ton more > traffic over the wire.
Let's reverse the question: why would the admin ever want to filter messages to debugging consoles like netconsole or blockconsole? When running a debugging session, you generally want to see *all* messages. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/