[PATCH 1/2] MTD: UBI: speed up init by moving status messages to debugfs

Richard Weinberger richard at nod.at
Mon Jul 25 13:39:10 PDT 2016



Am 25.07.2016 um 18:47 schrieb Greg KH:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 01:32:30PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> These days I'd not print all of them. But we do already and I know
>> setups which parse dmesg and grep for some of these values.
> 
> That's horrid and should not be tolerated, please never grep the kernel
> log for anything.
> 
>> Either to see whether attach worked or just to gather debug infos for
>> QA.
>> I don't want to risk breaking existing stuff.
> 
> We do not claim that kernel log messages are an "ABI" that can not be
> changed or broken at all.

I know, but today I'm less sadistic than usual and allow users to keep their
stuff.
Rajeev's issue is not related to UBI and can be solved in a generic and sane
way using loglevels. So there is no need to change the existing logging.

Thanks,
//richard



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