[systemd-devel] [PATCH v4] use systemd.debug on the kernel command line, not "debug"

[David Timothy Strauss]

On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Jason St. John <jstjohn at purdue.edu> wrote:
> "init.debug" would be better than "systemd.debug", in my opinion. It
> is shorter (less typing and no possible end-user confusion over
> "systemd.debug" vs. "system.debug"), and it is init-agnostic. Other
> init systems (OpenRC, Upstart, etc.) would be able to add their own
> support for this, if they want, without requiring an init-specific
> kernel parameter.
>
> It just seems a lot simpler this way.

It would be a little odd given how "systemd.<name>" is how other
probably portable options get namespaced. Arguably, systemd.log_level
would become init.log_level. I'm not against it, but it couldn't be
just init.debug.