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@@ -2,11 +2,25 @@ dmesg ----- - - add new command line option --facility= or --loglevel= to print select - loglevel only. For example - - $ dmesg --logleve=6 - $ dmesg --loglevel=INFO + - add new command line option --facility= and --level= to print select + messages only. For example + + $ dmesg --level=ERR --facility=DAEMON + + IRC log: + + <mezcalero> kzak: the point of --facility= is so that we can distuingish between kernel msgs and userspace msgs written to /dev/kmsg + <mezcalero> the latter would set facility=1 (i.e. LOG_USER) or facility=3 (i.e. LOG_DAEMON) + <mezcalero> kzak: right now, everything written to kmsg just uses on-char PRIO fields + <mezcalero> kzak: i.e. <0> to <7> + <mezcalero> kzak: that means facility for all of these is 0 + <mezcalero> since facility according to the syslog spec is stored in the the bits of the value between "<" and ">" shifted right be 3 + <mezcalero> and since that is zero for all msgs in kmsg this is identical to LOG_KERN, i.e. 0 << 3 + <mezcalero> now, the idea is that we fix systemd, dracut and udev to use LOG_DAEMON or LOG_USER instead + <mezcalero> instead of using <4> as prefix they'd use <12> or so + <mezcalero> where 12 is 4 + 8 + <mezcalero> where 8 is 1 << 3 + <mezcalero> and 1 is LOG_USER mount ----- |