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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@samsung.com>,
	sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	a.sahrawat@samsung.com, pankaj.m@samsung.com,
	v.narang@samsung.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] printk: remove unused flag LOG_NOCONS
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 17:33:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180604173342.0b7a78e6@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180531121633.acuffu2b66q24c5c@pathway.suse.cz>

On Thu, 31 May 2018 14:16:33 +0200
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> wrote:

> >  enum log_flags {
> > -	LOG_NOCONS	= 1,	/* already flushed, do not print to console */
> > -	LOG_NEWLINE	= 2,	/* text ended with a newline */
> > -	LOG_PREFIX	= 4,	/* text started with a prefix */
> > -	LOG_CONT	= 8,	/* text is a fragment of a continuation line */
> > +	LOG_NEWLINE	= 1,	/* text ended with a newline */
> > +	LOG_PREFIX	= 2,	/* text started with a prefix */
> > +	LOG_CONT	= 4,	/* text is a fragment of a continuation line */
> >  };  
> 
> Please, do not renumber the bits if there is no real need for it.
> The format of the log buffer is read also by external tool like
> "crash". It seems that "crash" ignores these flags but...

Then what's the problem for renumbering? I've renumbered internal flags
before. No one complained about it.

-- Steve

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-06-04 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20180531102133epcas5p2e8d47887c1708836c9b70964983093e2@epcas5p2.samsung.com>
2018-05-31 10:17 ` [PATCH 1/2] printk: remove unused flag LOG_NOCONS Maninder Singh
2018-05-31 10:54   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-05-31 12:16   ` Petr Mladek
2018-05-31 15:12     ` Joe Perches
2018-06-05 12:59       ` Petr Mladek
2018-06-04 21:33     ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2018-06-05 12:56       ` Petr Mladek

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