linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 4/5]: core: Add kernel message dumper to call on oopses and panics

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Message-ID: <20091015093133.GF10546@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:31:33 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@...insight.net>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mtd <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Koskinen Aaro (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" <aaro.koskinen@...ia.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 4/5]: core: Add kernel message dumper to call on
	oopses and panics


* Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@...insight.net> wrote:

> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h

> +enum kmsg_dump_reason {
> +	kmsg_dump_oops,
> +	kmsg_dump_panic,
> +};

Please capitalize constants - lower case suggests it's some sort of 
variable which it is not.

> +void dump_kmsg(enum kmsg_dump_reason reason);
> +
> +int register_kmsg_dumper(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper);
> +
> +void unregister_kmsg_dumper(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper);

Please rename these APIs to be more in line with how we name new kernel 
APIs. Something like:

  kmsg_dump()
  kmsg_dumper_register()
  kmsg_dumper_unregister()

(we start with the subsystem as a prefix, then we go from more generic 
to less generic words.)

Might even make sense to name them all kmsg_dump:

  kmsg_dump()
  kmsg_dump_register()
  kmsg_dump_unregister()

Thanks,

	Ingo
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