Re: [PATCH] printk timestamp post-boot suppression

From: Mark Brown
Date: Wed Aug 27 2008 - 12:16:46 EST


On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:16:13AM -0400, Joe Korty wrote:

> Its utility after boot is questionable, since 1) the
> timestamp becomes a rather large, unreadable integer,
> as the hours, days and weeks go by, and 2) syslog does
> a proper TOD timestamp anyways on these later messages,
> as they go into /var/log/messages.

It'd be nicer if this were optional - syslog typically only logs at
second resolution and not all systems are going to have logfiles.
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