Hi Jesper,
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 July 2007 11:41:43 Matt Mackall wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:49:41PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> > > From: Satyam Sharma <[email protected]>
> > >
> > > [4/9] netconsole: Add some useful tips to documentation
> > >
> > > Add some useful general-purpose tips.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <[email protected]>
> > > Cc: Keiichi Kii <[email protected]>
> >
> > Acked-by: Matt Mackall <[email protected]>
> >
> > As long as we're on the subject, I've been meaning to add a note
> > telling people to set their console log level to something useful, as
> > having that set too low is the most common problem people encounter.
>
> How about this?
> [...]
> +Some people forget to raise the kernels log_level to an
> +appropriate level and thus don't see all the kernel log messages they
> +expect. You can add the kernel boot option "ignore_loglevel" to see all
> +messages or you can use SysRq to set the log level to a specific value.
> +
IMHO something that mentions /proc/sys/kernel/printk would be better.
You don't need to have built with SysRq support for that, it's clearly
more flexible than the ignore_loglevel option and wouldn't require a
reboot either. I'll send out an updated patch shortly.
Satyam
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