Re: [PATCH] ABI: Update dev-kmsg documentation to match current kernel behaviour

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Tue Sep 03 2019 - 01:02:27 EST


On (09/02/19 11:18), James Byrne wrote:
> Commit 5aa068ea4082 ("printk: remove games with previous record flags")
> abolished the practice of setting the log flag to 'c' for the first
> continuation line and '+' for subsequent lines. Now all continuation
> lines are flagged with 'c' and '+' is never used.
>
> Update the 'dev-kmsg' documentation to remove the reference to the
> obsolete '+' flag. In addition, state explicitly that only 8 bits of the
> <N> syslog prefix are used for the facility number when writing to
> /dev/kmsg.
>
> Signed-off-by: James Byrne <james.byrne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>

-ss