Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932586Ab0KWAaJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:30:09 -0500 Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:14950 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932065Ab0KWAaF (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:30:05 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,239,1288594800"; d="scan'208";a="629355137" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Generic hardware error reporting support From: Huang Ying To: Mark Lord Cc: huang ying , Linus Torvalds , 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 In-Reply-To: <4CEB0037.3000303@teksavvy.com> References: <1290154233-28695-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> <4CEB0037.3000303@teksavvy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:29:58 +0800 Message-ID: <1290472198.2903.156.camel@yhuang-dev> 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: 1109 Lines: 30 On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 07:43 +0800, Mark Lord wrote: > 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. Although it may be possible to extract some information from syslog and parse it in a fault tolerant way, we can only use that human oriented interface for a tool? That sounds like hack. > 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. Adding a new device file will be seen as a new kernel API? Best Regards, Huang Ying -- 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/