Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] printk: honor the max_reason field in kmsg_dumper

From: Pavel Tatashin
Date: Tue May 05 2020 - 00:22:40 EST


> > I changed it to make code cleaner: for such basic operation there are
> > too many conditions if we will keep it inside the kmsg_dump().
> > However, if being able to set always_kmsg_dump dynamically during
> > runtime is deemed important, I can change it back to be checked in
> > kmsg_dump.
>
> If you agree that we do not have to modify this variable dynamically,
> I will also change the permission here:
> module_param_named(always_kmsg_dump, always_kmsg_dump, bool, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);

Hi Sergey,

After thinking about this. I will move this logic back to kmsg_dump(),
to keep the current behavior where kmsg_dump can be modified during
runtime.

Thank you,
Pasha