Commit 5aa068ea4082 ("printk: remove games with previous record flags")
abolished the practice of setting the log flag to 'c' for the first
continuation line and '+' for subsequent lines. Now all continuation
lines are flagged with 'c' and '+' is never used.Update the 'dev-kmsg' documentation to remove the reference to the obsolete '+' flag. In addition, state explicitly that only 8 bits of the <N> syslog prefix are used for the facility number when writing to /dev/kmsg. Signed-off-by: James Byrne <[email protected]> --- Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg | 15 +++++++-------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg b/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg index fff817efa508..f307506eb54c 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Description: The /dev/kmsg character device node provides userspace access The logged line can be prefixed with a <N> syslog prefix, which carries the syslog priority and facility. The single decimal prefix number is composed of the 3 lowest bits being the syslog - priority and the higher bits the syslog facility number. + priority and the next 8 bits the syslog facility number. If no prefix is given, the priority number is the default kernel log priority and the facility number is set to LOG_USER (1). It @@ -90,13 +90,12 @@ Description: The /dev/kmsg character device node provides userspace access +sound:card0 - subsystem:devname The flags field carries '-' by default. A 'c' indicates a - fragment of a line. All following fragments are flagged with - '+'. Note, that these hints about continuation lines are not - necessarily correct, and the stream could be interleaved with - unrelated messages, but merging the lines in the output - usually produces better human readable results. A similar - logic is used internally when messages are printed to the - console, /proc/kmsg or the syslog() syscall. + fragment of a line. Note, that these hints about continuation + lines are not necessarily correct, and the stream could be + interleaved with unrelated messages, but merging the lines in + the output usually produces better human readable results. A + similar logic is used internally when messages are printed to + the console, /proc/kmsg or the syslog() syscall. By default, kernel tries to avoid fragments by concatenating when it can and fragments are rare; however, when extended -- 2.17.1
