Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756835AbXIRBlT (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:41:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754728AbXIRBlM (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:41:12 -0400 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:12063 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753835AbXIRBlL (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:41:11 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:38:53 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Cc: pete@bluelane.com, Jason Wessel , Matt Mackall , Amit Kale , Dave Anderson , kdb@oss.sgi.com, jlan@sgi.com, Vivek Goyal , Andrew Morton , Kexec Mailing List , Subject: Re: My position on general ``RAS'' tool support infrastructure Message-Id: <20070917183853.42f29393.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: References: <46E8B06D.9080006@bluelane.com> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.2 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1362 Lines: 41 On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:21:10 -0600 Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Pete/Piet Delaney writes: > > > Jason, Eric: > > > > Did you read Keith Owens suggestion on RAS tools from: Yes. and I re-read it. There are several things in Keith's email that make sense: a. all RAS tools should use a common interface b. it's not the kernel's job to decide which RAS tool runs first Eric makes some good points too. I'm mostly similar to Eric: paranoid about trusting software/hardware after a panic (or oops). So if someone wants to use multiple RAS tools on a panic event, enabling an admin to set priorities is OK with me, but I'll only trust the first one that is used, and even that one may have problems. IOW, I don't see a big need to support multiple RAS tools at one time. (speaking for myself) > So if someone who is suggesting an implementation can absorb > and understand the requirements of the different groups and come > up with solutions that meet the requirements of the different projects > I think progress can be made. That as far as I know takes talent. Ack that. --- ~Randy - 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/