Hi Jesper, On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On Tuesday 10 July 2007 11:41:43 Matt Mackall wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:49:41PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > > From: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > [4/9] netconsole: Add some useful tips to documentation > > > > > > Add some useful general-purpose tips. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Cc: Keiichi Kii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Acked-by: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > As long as we're on the subject, I've been meaning to add a note > > telling people to set their console log level to something useful, as > > having that set too low is the most common problem people encounter. > > How about this? > [...] > +Some people forget to raise the kernels log_level to an > +appropriate level and thus don't see all the kernel log messages they > +expect. You can add the kernel boot option "ignore_loglevel" to see all > +messages or you can use SysRq to set the log level to a specific value. > +
IMHO something that mentions /proc/sys/kernel/printk would be better. You don't need to have built with SysRq support for that, it's clearly more flexible than the ignore_loglevel option and wouldn't require a reboot either. I'll send out an updated patch shortly. Satyam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
