Re: [PATCH] Print sysrq-m messages with KERN_INFO priority

[Theodore Tso]

On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 08:42:47PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:24:53 -0500
> "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Print messages resulting from sysrq-m with a KERN_INFO instead of the
> > default KERN_WARNING priority
> 
> hm, I wonder why.  If someone does sysrq-<whatever> then they presumably want
> to display the result?  Tricky.
> 
> Is this patch a consistency thing?

The goal of the patch was to avoid filling /var/log/messages huge
amounts of sysrq text.  Some of the sysrq commands, especially sysrq-m
and sysrq-t emit a truly vast amount of information, and it's not
really nice to have that filling up /var/log/messages.  

						- Ted
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