Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755580Ab1BKJur (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:50:47 -0500 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:46304 "EHLO localhost.localdomain" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755207Ab1BKJuq (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:50:46 -0500 Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:54:55 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Greg KH Cc: Mike Waychison , Tim Hockin , Robert Lippert , LKML Subject: Re: SMBIOS / DMI Event Logs in Linux? Message-ID: <20110211095455.657d2868@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110211012552.GA28995@kroah.com> References: <4D547236.6080702@google.com> <20110211012552.GA28995@kroah.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.22.0; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 786 Lines: 20 > Now your idea for such a log file is fine, I'm not saying that's not ok, > or acceptable, just don't put it in sysfs, sorry. Try using the ring > buffer framework from the tracing code perhaps? Thats probably overkill unless you need to field messages very fast and synchronize them with other trace data (in which case it's probably not overkill) > Or use debugfs? Or make a 'firmwarefs'? I can easily knock that > together if you need it. netlink, connector, or even just a simple misc device that tosses them down a kfifo ? Alan -- 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/