[PATCH] 2.6 PPC64: Reduce rtas spamming

[Jake Moilanen]

> > 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...
>

Hollis,

I think this is an intermittent step in moving towards netlink.  Even
when we move towards netlink, we still want to give an option to have
the messages in /var/log/messages.

Nathan,

Do you think we should make CONFIG option if this is set or not set by
default, so the distros can decide to have it printed if they don't
package ELA by default.

Thanks,
Jake

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