Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756248AbZFEO7u (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:59:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756415AbZFEO7d (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:59:33 -0400 Received: from dallas.jonmasters.org ([72.29.103.172]:38350 "EHLO dallas.jonmasters.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756376AbZFEO7b (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:59:31 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] FS: userspace notification of errors From: Jon Masters To: Kay Sievers Cc: Andrew Morton , Denis Karpov , axboe@kernel.dk, hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, adrian.hunter@nokia.com, artem.bityutskiy@nokia.com In-Reply-To: References: <1244041518-32229-1-git-send-email-ext-denis.2.karpov@nokia.com> <20090603115611.6bbbaf55.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: World Organi[sz]ation Of Broken Dreams Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:25:22 -0400 Message-Id: <1244186723.11597.111.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 (2.24.5-1.fc10) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Do-Not-Run: Yes X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jonathan@jonmasters.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on dallas.jonmasters.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1150 Lines: 27 On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 14:53 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 20:56, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 18:05:14 +0300 Denis Karpov wrote: > > > hm, I'm uncertain on the desirability or otherwise of the > > overall feature. I think the idea is a good one. It allows a distribution to take more proactive measures before services just start dying randomly later. I could see this nicely wrapped up with some kind of GUI dialog presented to the desktop user announcing impending doom, too. > Uevents should not be used for error reporting Not as currently implemented - but I think the idea of having kernel events for this kind of thing isn't a bad one, nor is the idea of listening on a netlink socket for news about them rather than writing library code to poll whatever procfs file and parse its content. Jon. -- 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/