Re: [PATCH] printk: allow setting DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LEVEL via Kconfig

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Jan 25 2011 - 19:40:58 EST


On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 15:57 -0800, Mandeep Singh Baines wrote:
> To make it easier to audit dmesg, we'd like to make
> DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LEVEL Kconfig-settable. That way we can set it to
> KERN_NOTICE and audit any messages <= KERN_WARNING.

Seems sensible, but mightn't it be better to make sure
that all printks use a specific KERN_<level> rather
than check that printks without a KERN_<level> are
emitted at a selectable level?


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