[PATCH 0/8] Rework KERN_<LEVEL>

On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 01:39 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Joe Perches [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 16:29 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

quoted

What about writes starting with \001n?  AFACIT, that will be stripped
away and the printk level will be altered.  This is new behavior.

Nope.

# echo "\001Hello Andrew" > /dev/kmsg
/dev/kmsg has
12,774,2462339252;\001Hello Andrew

Try "echo -e"? The stuff is copied verbatim otherwise.

# echo -e "\001Hello Kay" > /dev/kmsg
gives
12,776,3046752764;\x01Hello Kay