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

Huang Ying
2010-11-23T00:30:05Z

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