[PATCH RFC 0/5] Containerize syslog
Andrew Morton
akpm at linux-foundation.org
Fri Dec 7 09:03:55 UTC 2012
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:51:09 -0800 ebiederm at xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> Are there any kernel print statements besides networking stack printks
> that we want to move to show up in a new "kernel log" namespace?
That's a good question, and afaict it remains unanswered.
As so often happens, this patchset's changelogs forgot to describe the
reason for the existence of this patchset. Via a bit of lwn reading
and my awesome telepathic skills, I divine that something in networking
is using syslog for kernel->userspace communications.
wtf?
Wouldn't it be better to just stop doing that, and to implement a
respectable and reliable kernel->userspace messaging scheme?
And leave syslog alone - it's a crude low-level thing for random
unexpected things which operators might want to know about.
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