[PATCH 0/8] Rework KERN_<LEVEL>

[Joe Perches]

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

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