The logger meets linux-kernel

It seems like the only reason they wanted this in the kernel in the first place was speed. Sending messages to a daemon over a socket or pipe was considered too slow. Unfortunately, they ended up adding a lot of policy like the log stream names "radio", "main", "events", etc. This was also the rationale for putting Binder and friends in kernel space-- to get that nice zero-copy performance along with the security they wanted. Maybe what we really need is a secure circular buffer IPC primitive rather than all these special-purpose widgets.

It's interesting that the Android guys went with unstructured logging. They control the entire userspace, so presumably it would be a lot easier for them to force developers to write structured log messages than it will be for Red Hat to get people to use structured Journal logs. There is also something bizarre about the fact that 1970s-era UNIX systems were fine using unstructured logging, and small cell phone systems are fine using it, but people claim that it is too inefficient to run on servers. However, maybe there's something I'm overlooking and the current focus on structured journald logging will be useful. Time will tell, I guess.