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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] printk: Add boottime and real timestamps
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On Tue, 1 Aug 2017, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> On 08/01/2017 01:00 PM, John Stultz wrote:
> > Its been asked already, but I've not yet seen an answer.
> 
> Sorry for missing this.
> 
> > Is there a reason your not also adding PRINTK_TIME_BOOT here (which to
> > me would be more generally useful then REAL or MONO)?
> 
> REAL has been useful to me in debug cases where events on the system were timed
> to the wall clock (ex cron job running at 3AM).  I hadn't really thought much
> about using BOOT TBH because MONO seemed to work just fine.
> 
> Mark Salyzyn, did you want BOOT or MONO?

We really want both.

Thanks,

	tglx