Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932554Ab0KCTkd (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Nov 2010 15:40:33 -0400 Received: from mail.perches.com ([173.55.12.10]:3956 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755364Ab0KCTkb (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Nov 2010 15:40:31 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 00/12] netoops support From: Joe Perches To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Greg KH , Mike Waychison , simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net, davem@davemloft.net, adurbin@google.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, chavey@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20101103115020.ad8a4ecc.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> References: <20101103012917.4641.57113.stgit@crlf.mtv.corp.google.com> <20101103023422.GB5782@kroah.com> <20101103181634.GF7441@kroah.com> <20101103115020.ad8a4ecc.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:40:29 -0700 Message-ID: <1288813229.10236.2.camel@Joe-Laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1082 Lines: 23 On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 11:50 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 11:16:34 -0700 Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 08:37:42PM -0700, Mike Waychison wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > As for the user/kernel interface, perhaps exporting the data in a text > > format that is "tagged" would be best? Then the whole world can parse > > it easily. > I have been (occasionally) looking at critical kernel messages. > IMO we really need an easy way to find them. > They can begin with any of these strings (and others can be added > too easily): > BUG|panic|MCE|NMI|error:|Oops|Bad|Fatal|Unrecoverable|Unhandled|Weird > We need a simple (single?) tagging method to identify any/all of these, > /methinks. Simply marking these messages KERN_CRIT or higher would seem to work. -- 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/