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SubjectRe: RFC: android logger feedback request
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, NeilBrown wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:36:21 -0800 Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com> wrote:
>
>> On 12/21/2011 03:19 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>>> That all describes the current code, but you haven't described what's
>>> wrong with the existing syslog interface that requires this new driver
>>> to be written. And why can't the existing interface be fixed to address
>>> these (potential) shortcomings?
>>
>>
>>>> One specific question I have is where is the most appropriate
>>>> place for this code to live, in the kernel source tree?
>>>> Other embedded systems might want to use this system (it
>>>> is simpler than syslog, and superior in some ways), so I don't
>>>> think it should remain in an android-specific directory.
>>>
>>> What way is it superior?
>>
>> Here are some ways that this code is superior to syslog:
>
> It is certainly nice and simple. It really looks more like a filesystem than
> a char device though... though they aren't really files so much as lossy
> pipes. I don't think that's a problem though, lots of things in filesystems
> don't behave exactly like files.
>
> If you created a 'logbuf' filesystem that used libfs to provide a single
> directory in which privileged processes could create files then you wouldn't
> need the kernel to "know" the allowed logs: radio, events, main, system.
> The size could be set by ftruncate() (by privileged used again) rather than
> being hardcoded.
>
> You would defined 'read' and 'write' much like you currently do to create a list of
> datagrams in a circular buffer and replace the ioctls by more standard
> interfaces:
>
> LOGGER_GET_LOG_BUG_SIZE would use 'stat' and the st_blocks field
> LOGGER_GET_LOG_LEN would use 'stat' and the st_size field
> LOGGER_GET_NEXT_ENTRY_LEN could use the FIONREAD ioctl
> LOGGER_FLUSH_LOG could use ftruncate
>
> The result would be much the same amount of code, but an interface which has
> fewer details hard-coded and is generally more versatile and accessible.

That sounds better than what has been done in android, but it is still
_far_ more limited than doing something that could be replaced by a fairly
standard syslog daemon.

David Lang


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