Re: [PATCH 0/8] Rework KERN_<LEVEL>

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 15:17 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:11:43 -0700
> Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 14:28 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Unfortunately the <n> thing is part of the kernel ABI:
> > > 
> > > 	echo "<4>foo" > /dev/kmsg
> > 
> > Which works the same way it did before.
> 
> I didn't say it didn't.
> 
> What I did say is that echo "\0014">/dev/kmsg will subvert the intent
> of the new logging code.  Or might.  But you just ignored all that,
> forcing me to repeat myself, irritatedly.

It works the same way before and after the patch.

Any write to /dev/kmsg without a KERN_<LEVEL>
emits at (1 << 3) + KERN_DEFAULT.

Writes with <n> values >= 8 are emitted at
that level.


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