Android U Beta 1 GPL
Make kernlog available to product and vendor am: 88e5a784df

Original change: https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/external/rust/crates/kernlog/+/2476366

Change-Id: I2e14c69e77b842d2f8999b11603aedd4154568c9
Signed-off-by: Automerger Merge Worker <android-build-automerger-merge-worker@system.gserviceaccount.com>
tree: 628d73140d42906c0980caef76ec1933b5ab0a97
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  3. Android.bp
  4. Cargo.toml
  5. cargo2android.json
  6. LICENSE
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  8. MODULE_LICENSE_MIT
  9. OWNERS
  10. README.md
  11. TEST_MAPPING
README.md

Kernel logger for Rust

Logger implementation for low level kernel log (using /dev/kmsg)

Usually intended for low level implementations, like systemd generators, which have to use /dev/kmsg:

Since syslog is not available (see above) write log messages to /dev/kmsg instead.

Full documentation.

Usage

[dependencies]
log = "0.4"
kernlog = "0.3"
#[macro_use]
extern crate log;
extern crate kernlog;

fn main() {
    kernlog::init().unwrap();
    warn!("something strange happened");
}

Note you have to have permissions to write to /dev/kmsg, which normal users (not root) usually don't.