Not that anything particularly sensitive goes into these logs mind you..
however I'm sure user joe doesn't care if my floppy driver module has been
loaded/unloaded or that lp1 is out of paper/on fire etc :-)
--- /home/stuff/kernel/linux/kernel/printk.c Fri Jun 7 09:54:06 1996
+++ ./printk.c Sun Jan 26 01:12:06 1997
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
char c;
int error;
- if ((type != 3) && !suser())
+ if (!suser())
return -EPERM;
switch (type) {
case 0: /* Close log */