linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Generic hardware error reporting support

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Message-ID: <4CEDCCF5.5030308@teksavvy.com>
Date:	Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:41:57 -0500
From:	Mark Lord <kernel@...savvy.com>
To:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
CC:	huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Generic hardware error reporting support

On 10-11-22 07:29 PM, Huang Ying wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 07:43 +0800, Mark Lord wrote:
>> On 10-11-20 08:06 PM, huang ying wrote:
>>>
>>> I have no objection to report hardware errors in system logs too. So
>>> these people can get the information too. I just want to add another
>>> tool oriented interface too. So that some other users (like cluster
>>> administrator) can get their work done better too.
>>
>> So, use the standard interface for the tool:  syslog.
>
> Although it may be possible to extract some information from syslog and
> parse it in a fault tolerant way, we can only use that human oriented
> interface for a tool? That sounds like hack.

No, that sounds like the *NIX programming philosophy.

You may have already noticed that most *NIX tools store
and manage data in _text_ form.  That makes it easy to
understand, easy to parse/process, and generally better
in almost every respect.

Other platforms (GNOME, MS-Windows) prefer a binary format
that requires special tools to view/access.  Ugh.

Cheers
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