[PATCH 0/8] Rework KERN_<LEVEL>

On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:07:27 -0700 Joe Perches [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 16:58 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

quoted

 echo "\0014Hello Joe" > /dev/kmsg

# echo -e "\x014Hello Me" > /dev/kmsg
gives:
12,778,4057982669;Hello Me

That's changed behavior.

On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 02:28:39 +0200 Kay Sievers [off-list ref] wrote:

Yeah, but printk_emit() will not try to parse it? I did not check, but
with your change, the prefix parsing in printk_emit() is still skipped
if a level is given as a parameter to printk_emit(), right?

printk_emit() does parse the leading \0014, and then skips over it,
removing it from the output stream.  printk_emit() then throws away the
resulting level because devkmsg_writev() did not pass in level==-1.