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-rw-r--r--drivers/net/Kconfig22
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/netconsole.c5
2 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
index be43cd08027b..44eeb5d61ba9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
@@ -332,6 +332,28 @@ config NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC
at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs.
See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst> for details.
+config NETCONSOLE_EXTENDED_LOG
+ bool "Set kernel extended message by default"
+ depends on NETCONSOLE
+ default n
+ help
+ Set extended log support for netconsole message. If this option is
+ set, log messages are transmitted with extended metadata header in a
+ format similar to /dev/kmsg. See
+ <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst> for details.
+
+config NETCONSOLE_PREPEND_RELEASE
+ bool "Prepend kernel release version in the message by default"
+ depends on NETCONSOLE_EXTENDED_LOG
+ default n
+ help
+ Set kernel release to be prepended to each netconsole message by
+ default. If this option is set, the kernel release is prepended into
+ the first field of every netconsole message, so, the netconsole
+ server/peer can easily identify what kernel release is logging each
+ message. See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst> for
+ details.
+
config NETPOLL
def_bool NETCONSOLE
diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
index 670b6f0a054c..3111e1648592 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
@@ -178,6 +178,11 @@ static struct netconsole_target *alloc_and_init(void)
if (!nt)
return nt;
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_EXTENDED_LOG))
+ nt->extended = true;
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_PREPEND_RELEASE))
+ nt->release = true;
+
nt->np.name = "netconsole";
strscpy(nt->np.dev_name, "eth0", IFNAMSIZ);
nt->np.local_port = 6665;