Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] Remove syslog prefix in uncompressed oops text

From: aruna <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:09:55 +0530

On Monday 15 April 2013 12:50 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:51:00PM +0530, Aruna Balakrishnaiah wrote:
>> Removal of syslog prefix in the uncompressed oops text will
>> help in capturing more oops data.
> Why does it help? Does this effect any existing tools?
>
> cheers
>

By setting the (2nd) syslog argument of kmsg_dump_get_buffer() to false,
we omit <n> line prefixes and thereby capture more of the printk buffer.

No this should not effect any existing tools.

Regards,
Aruna