[PATCH] 2.6 PPC64: Reduce rtas spamming

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Jul 19, 2004, at 11:52 AM, Nathan Fontenot wrote:

> This patch will allow you to turn off the reporting of rtas messages
> to /var/log/messages. There have been several situations in which
> machines spew out too many rtas messages thus making debugging more
> difficult. Being able to turn off the rtas messages reporting will
> help by not having to wade through the tens or hundreds of (probably)
> unrelated rtas events in /var/log/messages while trying to debug a
> system.

Weren't people were talking about using netlink rather than /proc for
this? I think netlink involves creating a special type of socket and
reading from that, so it's not easily shell-scriptable, but...

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Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center

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