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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartmann <greg@kroah.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: support structured and multi-facility log messages
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:59:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1333760371.8565.19.camel@joe2Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.00.1204070222130.18937@twin.jikos.cz>

On Sat, 2012-04-07 at 02:26 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Apr 2012, Kay Sievers wrote:
> 
> > - Output of dev_printk() is reliably machine-readable now. In addition
> >   to the printed plain text message, it creates a log dictionary with the
> >   following properties:
> >     SUBSYSTEM=     - the driver-core subsytem name
> >     DEVICE=
> >       b12:8        - block dev_t
> >       c127:3       - char dev_t
> >       n8           - netdev ifindex
> >       +sound:card0 - subsystem:devname
> 
> One of the questions that hasn't been raised yet, and which I personally 
> consider crucial -- are we making printk() interface part of userspace ABI 
> now by this?

I hope not.

> Today, we are free to change any printk()s and not feel guilty about it at 
> all. With this, we are making the whole thing much more systematic and 
> friendly for automatic userspace consumption.

It _may_ be that new KEYWORD=VALUE combinations may become
systematic and an ABI, but the content of the message is
still arbitrary and should be designated as changeable
without notice.




  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-07  0:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-04 19:59 [PATCH] printk: support structured and multi-facility log messages Kay Sievers
2012-04-04 21:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartmann
2012-04-04 21:14   ` Kay Sievers
2012-04-05  0:31     ` Greg Kroah-Hartmann
2012-04-04 21:16   ` richard -rw- weinberger
2012-04-04 21:20     ` Kay Sievers
2012-04-04 23:51 ` Joe Perches
2012-04-05  0:33   ` Greg Kroah-Hartmann
2012-04-05  0:40     ` Joe Perches
2012-04-05  7:46       ` Kay Sievers
2012-04-05  8:08         ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-04-05  8:35           ` Kay Sievers
2012-04-05 11:44             ` Joe Perches
2012-04-05  8:38 ` Joe Perches
2012-04-05  8:44   ` Kay Sievers
2012-04-05 15:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-04-05 15:25   ` Kay Sievers
2012-04-05 17:18     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-04-05 17:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-05 17:53   ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-13 13:42     ` Stijn Devriendt
2012-04-05 19:47   ` Kay Sievers
2012-04-06  1:12     ` Joe Perches
2012-04-06  1:31       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-06  3:43         ` Joe Perches
2012-04-06 18:35         ` Kay Sievers
2012-04-08  0:47           ` Joe Perches
2012-04-08  1:02           ` Joe Perches
2012-04-10 17:21             ` Joe Perches
2012-04-11 11:39     ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-04-07  0:26 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-04-07  0:59   ` Joe Perches [this message]
2012-04-07  1:14     ` Jiri Kosina
2012-04-07  1:51       ` Joe Perches

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