Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264500AbTFQEVD (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2003 00:21:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264535AbTFQEVD (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2003 00:21:03 -0400 Received: from h80ad2689.async.vt.edu ([128.173.38.137]:29568 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264500AbTFQEVB (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2003 00:21:01 -0400 Message-Id: <200306170434.h5H4YZPZ003025@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4+dev To: Janice Girouard Cc: "David S. Miller" , Daniel Stekloff , janiceg@us.ibm.com, jgarzik@pobox.com, Larry Kessler , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, niv@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: patch for common networking error messages In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Jun 2003 21:12:50 CDT." From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_218344882P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 00:34:34 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1620 Lines: 42 --==_Exmh_218344882P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 21:12:50 CDT, Janice Girouard said: > Okay. That solves the issue of events generated in a plethora of formats > for the same event. Any suggestions on what should be included in this new > family? I can present a patch to suggest a starting point. However, it > would be great to hear from everyone that has any initial thoughts. Well, at the risk of torquing off any SCO supporters, I'd suggest a quick peek over at the general design of the AIX errpt/trace systems - in both cases, data comes out of the kernel in a formatted binary stream, and then a 'template' file is used to drive the parsing of the formatted data. Quite slick overall, and nicely extensible - you add a new kernel subsystem that has more trace points, you just tack its templates onto the end of the format file and you're good to go.... (And SCO can't even claim that's their code - it's pretty obvious the parentage of the AIX errpt/trace logging is the OS/VS1 and MVS SMF logging features :) --==_Exmh_218344882P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE+7ppacC3lWbTT17ARAnRPAJ4tmv1gOrC3xPdA/9RRB6aIc+ox4wCg3Y3M ALPo18K54qzckAkE1Xa7B4g= =00MR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_218344882P-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/