Re: [PATCH 3/9] printk: add CON_ALLDATA console flag

[Jeff Moyer]

Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 10:08:00AM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote:
>> People don't just use this for "debugging sessions." They use it in
>> production, and I already gave you one reason why you might not want
>> to do this with netconsole (udp is unreliable, and I've definitely
>> seem cases where netconsole suffered due to dropped packets; this
>> won't make that better, especially when you multiply the extra bytes
>> times the number of servers on the subnet).
>
> Ok, so we probably need to drop 4/9 for netconsole.

I don't think you've provided a very strong case for ignoring the
administrator's configuration settings.  I'm against the patches that
introduce this behaviour, for whatever that's worth (2 cents is the
going rate, I think).

Cheers,
Jeff
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