From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
cgl_discussion mailing list <cgl_discussion@osdl.org>,
evlog mailing list <evlog-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>,
"ipslinux (Keith Mitchell)" <ipslinux@us.ibm.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@home.transmeta.com>,
Hien Nguyen <hien@us.ibm.com>,
James Keniston <kenistoj@us.ibm.com>,
Mike Sullivan <sullivam@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH-RFC} 3 of 4 - New problem logging macros, plus template generation
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 03:23:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D9012FB.7040700@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020924070706.D3A332C189@lists.samba.org
Rusty Russell wrote:
> In message <3D9000B9.4000001@pobox.com> [Jeff Garzik] write[s]:
>>Changing every printk() in the damn kernel?
>>Come on dude, I _know_ you have more taste than that.
>
> I'm not interested in changing all the printks. I'm interested in
> designing the simplest regularized logging interface I can. If it's
> done right, driver authors will migrate to it because it's easier for
> them, and their bug reports become clearer, and sysadmins get happier.
Thanks for saying that out loud.
So, IOW, IBM makes the API, and expects everyone else to step up and do
the huge amount of grunt work... Nice.
"If it's done right," there need not be massive changes at all.
More tomorrow.
Jeff, just another unpaid IBM worker...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-24 7:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-24 1:54 [PATCH-RFC} 3 of 4 - New problem logging macros, plus template generation Larry Kessler
2002-09-24 2:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-24 5:47 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-24 6:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-24 7:06 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-24 7:23 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-09-24 7:30 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-24 19:48 ` alternate event logging proposal Jeff Garzik
2002-09-24 19:57 ` Chris Friesen
2002-09-24 20:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-24 20:54 ` Tim Hockin
2002-09-24 22:32 ` Brad Hards
2002-09-24 23:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-24 23:37 ` Brad Hards
2002-09-24 23:59 ` Tim Hockin
2002-09-24 23:38 ` Tim Hockin
2002-09-25 0:09 ` Ben Greear
2002-09-25 0:47 ` Tim Hockin
2002-09-25 1:14 ` Brad Hards
2002-09-25 1:38 ` Tim Hockin
2002-09-24 20:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-24 20:27 ` [evlog-dev] " Larry Kessler
2002-09-24 20:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-24 21:11 ` Larry Kessler
2002-09-24 21:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-25 0:15 ` Larry Kessler
2002-09-24 21:27 ` Horst von Brand
2002-09-24 21:50 ` Larry Kessler
2002-09-25 14:44 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2002-09-24 20:54 ` [evlog-dev] " Daniel E. F. Stekloff
2002-09-24 21:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-30 22:43 ` Pavel Machek
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