On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net> wrote: > > The other thing I've used /dev/kmsg for is to shove a "I'm starting > something now" message in. This is only really necessary because the > current kernel log timestamps are unusable crap. (We could fix that, > hint hint.)
I'd actually love to fix that, but I disagree with the "we could fix it". There are tons of people who know how to parse them (admittedly often only to ignore them), so changing the format is not likely to work. The good news is that "dmesg -H" does help if you're human. While at the same time being an example of that very "there are tools that know about the current horrid format" issue.. D'oh. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/