Re: Magic SysRq +# in 2.4.9-ac/2.4.10-pre12

[Alan Cox]

> Anyway, in looking at SysRq loglevel handling in
> 2.4.9-ac (and 2.4.10-pre12), I see that it has been modified
> quite a bit.  Looks extensible, which can be good.
> However, looking over it gave me several nagging questions
> and problems.
> 
> 1.  Was this stuff tested?  How ???

Its been in the ac tree for about 6 months and in several distro shippings

> If someone (Crutcher ?) wants to patch it, that's fine.
> If I patched it, I would just add a
>   next_loglevel = -1;
> at the beginning of __handle_sysrq_nolock() and then
> let the loglevel handler(s) set next_loglevel.
> If next_loglevel != -1 at the end of __handle_sysrq_nolock(),
> set console_loglevel to next_loglevel.

Send me a patch and cc Linus/Crutcher