From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 23:00:33 +0000 Subject: Re: Hardware error reporting [was Re: PCI Error reporting] Message-Id: <20061003230033.GA21320@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20061003152636.GA4381@austin.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20061003152636.GA4381@austin.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 11:26:54AM -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote: > On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 05:57:20PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > >=20 > > Error classification/reporting is a completely missing piece in Linux. > > Today there is no sane example of error reporting in the Linux kernel. > > Printk and friends are totally useless for anything else than the geek > > in front of the computer. Until the kernel gets a sane error > > classification/reporting infrastructure, it's impossible to solve such a > > problem. > >=20 > > And just in case: using the driver-core event-infrastucture (udev) is > > the totally wrong approach to relay kernel errors to userspace. >=20 > So what's the right approach?=20 >=20 > Historically, I notice there was an attempt called "evlog" > (http://evlog.sourceforge.net/) which bombed out; the latest > patches were to 2.6.4 from 2005. That is the right approach, using a netlink-like socket. Unfortunatly the project got killed by the sponsering company due to some crazy in-house politics and misunderstandings about how Linux kernel development really works. Hopefully someone implements this properly someday... thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=3Djoin.php&p=3Dsourceforge&CID=DEVD= EV _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel