Re: SMBIOS / DMI Event Logs in Linux?

Alan Cox
2011-02-11T09:50:47Z

> Now your idea for such a log file is fine, I'm not saying that's not ok,
> or acceptable, just don't put it in sysfs, sorry. Try using the ring
> buffer framework from the tracing code perhaps?

Thats probably overkill unless you need to field messages very fast and
synchronize them with other trace data (in which case it's probably not
overkill)

> Or use debugfs? Or make a 'firmwarefs'? I can easily knock that
> together if you need it.

netlink, connector, or even just a simple misc device that tosses them
down a kfifo ?

Alan