linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/23] netoops support

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Message-ID: <87k4knqo91.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Date:	Tue, 09 Nov 2010 02:28:26 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Mike Waychison <mikew@...gle.com>
Cc:	simon.kagstrom@...insight.net, davem@...emloft.net,
	nhorman@...driver.com, Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	adurbin@...gle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	chavey@...gle.com, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/23] netoops support

Mike Waychison <mikew@...gle.com> writes:

I'm still not fully convinced this needs to be a fully separate
mechanism from netconsole.  It seems a lot of work to implement
basically log level.

Maybe netconsole could be patched to support only dumping KERN_EMERG?

But I guess the structured logging has some advantages, although
there have been certainly oops parsers (e.g. kerneloops.org) without it.

>    * I am _NOT_ happy with the remaining userland ABIs presented in this
>      patchset.  Specifically the files "net_dump_now",
>      "net_dump_one_shot", "netdump_fw_version", "netdump_board_name"
>      and

fw_version and board_name is known by the kernel anyways through the DMI
interface, assuming the BIOS supplies that.  We also dump it already
on a standard oops. So why not just use that directly?

As a general user ABI perhaps simply an unstructured string is better
that is included in the packet.

-Andi

-- 
ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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