Re: [PATCH 0/2] Generic hardware error reporting support

[Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>]

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