On Friday, March 11, 2005 11:21 PM Greg KH wrote: >> >> - Report the errors to user. >> >This is done through the syslog, right? Is that acceptable?
Reporting the errors to user can be written automatically to /var/log/messages or be manually consumed through the syslog. I am not sure whether it is acceptable or not, but I like your below suggestion. >It looks like you are logging a lot of stuff, all without a kernel log >level, which is going to really mess up syslog parsers. > >Have you thought about just providing userspace with access to the error >message, in binary form, from a sysfs file, and causing a kevent to wake >userspace up to know to read from the file? That way all of the parsing >of the error log can be done in userspace, and there is no formatting of >the messages from within the kernel. Again, I like this suggestion. Thanks, Long - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
