Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:29:58 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 7/8] ACPI, APEI, CPER: Cleanup CPER memory error output format |
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 05:11:59PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote: > If so, how will disabling dmesg output and switching to a trace event > help? The user-space program will still break unless they add support > for that trace event, right?
Well, as yourself this: what happens to a userspace program which relies on this *exact* error message format and greps dmesg?
> I'm not sure if we actually provide guarantees w.r.t kernel log > messages. The issue in this specific scenario is the sheer verbosity > of the log messages.
No, the issue is what I said above: userspace programs expecting exactly this output. Once we exposed it to userspace, we cannot simply assume that nothing is using it.
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