Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756572Ab0KYCmE (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:42:04 -0500 Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:26235 "EHLO ironport2-out.pppoe.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754039Ab0KYCmC (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:42:02 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApIBAIpb7UxLd/sX/2dsb2JhbAAHg0jNA5BogSGDM3MEhFs X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,251,1288584000"; d="scan'208";a="83532255" Message-ID: <4CEDCCF5.5030308@teksavvy.com> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:41:57 -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: 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 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Generic hardware error reporting support References: <1290154233-28695-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> <4CEB0037.3000303@teksavvy.com> <1290472198.2903.156.camel@yhuang-dev> In-Reply-To: <1290472198.2903.156.camel@yhuang-dev> 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: 1280 Lines: 31 On 10-11-22 07:29 PM, Huang Ying wrote: > 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. No, that sounds like the *NIX programming philosophy. You may have already noticed that most *NIX tools store and manage data in _text_ form. That makes it easy to understand, easy to parse/process, and generally better in almost every respect. Other platforms (GNOME, MS-Windows) prefer a binary format that requires special tools to view/access. Ugh. Cheers -- 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/