Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] Generic hardware error reporting support | From | Huang Ying <> | Date | Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:29:58 +0800 |
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On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 07:43 +0800, Mark Lord wrote: > On 10-11-20 08:06 PM, huang ying wrote: > > > > I have no objection to report hardware errors in system logs too. So > > these people can get the information too. I just want to add another > > tool oriented interface too. So that some other users (like cluster > > administrator) can get their work done better too. > > So, use the standard interface for the tool: syslog.
Although it may be possible to extract some information from syslog and parse it in a fault tolerant way, we can only use that human oriented interface for a tool? That sounds like hack.
> Have this obscure new tool simply parse the log messages, > and the send/save the data whatever way you like. > > No new specialized kernel API required.
Adding a new device file will be seen as a new kernel API?
Best Regards, Huang Ying
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