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From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Generic hardware error reporting support
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:29:58 +0800
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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