Re: [RFC v3 0/9] Additional kmsg devices

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Paul Osmialowski
[off-list ref] wrote:

Dear All,

This is the third iteration of Marcin Niesluchowski's serie of patches
extending kmsg interface with ability to dynamically create (and destroy)
kmsg-like devices which can be used by userspace for logging.

In this iteration, following Joe Perches's suggestion, I've extracted
kmsg related functions from printk.c to a new file, kmsg.c.

Best regards,
Paul

Marcin Niesluchowski (7):
  printk: add one function for storing log in proper format
  kmsg: introduce additional kmsg devices support
  kmsg: add additional buffers support to memory class
  kmsg: add function for adding and deleting additional buffers
  kmsg: add ioctl for adding and deleting kmsg* devices
  kmsg: add ioctl for kmsg* devices operating on buffers
  kmsg: add predefined _PID, _TID, _COMM keywords to kmsg* log dict

Paul Osmialowski (2):
  printk: extract kmsg-related routines from printk.c to kmsg.c
  kmsg: selftests

Not CC'ing critical voices it not very nice. 8-)

As I replied to v1 of this series, IHMO we should not encourage
userspace tools to use kmsg as their poor-man's syslog.
Everything what this series does in kernel space can also be done
in userspace.

Just my two cents.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard