Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757911Ab0KVXn5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:43:57 -0500 Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:41663 "EHLO ironport2-out.pppoe.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757813Ab0KVXn4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:43:56 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApIBAIeP6kxLd/sX/2dsb2JhbAAHg0PMdZElgSKDNnMEhFo X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,239,1288584000"; d="scan'208";a="83275997" Message-ID: <4CEB0037.3000303@teksavvy.com> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:43:51 -0500 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: huang ying CC: Linus Torvalds , Huang Ying , Len Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Borislav Petkov , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Generic hardware error reporting support References: <1290154233-28695-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 757 Lines: 18 On 10-11-20 08:06 PM, huang ying wrote: > > I have no objection to report hardware errors in system logs too. So > these people can get the information too. I just want to add another > tool oriented interface too. So that some other users (like cluster > administrator) can get their work done better too. So, use the standard interface for the tool: syslog. Have this obscure new tool simply parse the log messages, and the send/save the data whatever way you like. No new specialized kernel API required. -- 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/