Re: Event logging vs enhancing printk

Mark Hahn
2002-04-12T12:38:02Z

> Can you make sure with printk-s that no error log is lost, can
> you tell when a log has actually reached a permanent store device ?

I see no reason to believe that evlog would behave any differently
from printk in this regard.

> Can you pass lots of data through a printk ?

yes, of course you can, and it's just as stupid as passing a lot of
data through evlog.

> Can you make sure that printks are not intermixed ?

show why this is a serious problem.

> I was glad to find this error log feature that meets our requirements.
> It provides us services which reduce our development cost and provides
> us functionality at "usual industrial level" (see e.g. POSIX).

frankly, evlog is a solution in search of a problem. I see no reason
printk can't do TSC timestamping, more robust and/or efficient buffering,
auto-classification in klogd, realtime filtering/notification in userspace,
even delaying of formatting, and logging of binary data.

regards, mark hahn.