Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Dec 2006 13:52:54 +0900 | From | Keiichi KII <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm 0/5] proposal for dynamic configurable netconsole |
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Thank you for your comments.
>> So, I propose the following extended features for netconsole. >> >> 1) support for multiple logging agents. >> 2) add interface to access each parameter of netconsole >> using sysfs. >> >> This patch is for linux-2.6.20-rc1-mm1 and is divided to each function. >> Your comments are very welcome. > > Rather than extending the existing kludge with module parameter, to > sysfs. I would rather see a better API for this. Please build think > about doing a better API with a basic set of ioctl's. Some additional
What advantage do we use a set of ioctl's compared to sysfs? I think that sysfs is easier and more readable than the ioctl's to change configurations(IP address and port number and so on).
ex) # cat /sys/class/misc/netconsole/port1/remote_ip 192.168.0.1 # echo 172.16.0.1 > /sys/class/misc/netconsole/port1/remote_ip # cat /sys/class/misc/netconsole/port1/remote_ip 172.16.0.1
And the sysfs doesn't need to create access program such as the ioctl's. If you change configurations related to netconsole through the sysfs interface, a simple script file including a set of commands such as above echo will help you set up automatically.
> things: > - shouldn't just be IPV4 specific, should handle IPV6 as well
I would like to implement handling IPV6 on demand in the future.
> - shouldn't specify MAC address, it can do network discovery/arp to > find that when adding addresses
I think a userland application would rather find target MAC address and change it through the sysfs.
-- Keiichi KII NEC Corporation OSS Promotion Center E-mail: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com
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