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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -v3 2/2] printk: Add kernel parameter to control writes
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On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 00:02:21 +0200
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:

> > If you silently fail here, then we lose all logging because systemd
> > thinks this is working when it is not. That's not what I want.  
> 
> Hmm, ok, you're making sense to me.
> 
> Do you want an error message too or only an -ENODEV returned or
> somesuch?
> 

My patch returned -EPERM and it works on my box. That is, systemd finds
something else to log to.

-- Steve