On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 23:37:43 -0500 Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
I find it extremely useful that it ends up in /var/log/messages so that I can review the dump later. Often the first glance through a set of dumps on things like a process deadlock don't reveal the right information and you need to go back and look again. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
