[PATCH 0/8] Rework KERN_<LEVEL>

[Kay Sievers]

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Joe Perches <joe at perches.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 16:29 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> 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.

Kay