From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>,
Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com>,
Robert Lippert <rlippert@google.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SMBIOS / DMI Event Logs in Linux?
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:54:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110211095455.657d2868@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110211012552.GA28995@kroah.com>
> Now your idea for such a log file is fine, I'm not saying that's not ok,
> or acceptable, just don't put it in sysfs, sorry. Try using the ring
> buffer framework from the tracing code perhaps?
Thats probably overkill unless you need to field messages very fast and
synchronize them with other trace data (in which case it's probably not
overkill)
> Or use debugfs? Or make a 'firmwarefs'? I can easily knock that
> together if you need it.
netlink, connector, or even just a simple misc device that tosses them
down a kfifo ?
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-11 9:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-10 23:18 Mike Waychison
2011-02-11 1:25 ` Greg KH
2011-02-11 2:19 ` Mike Waychison
2011-02-11 3:19 ` Greg KH
2011-02-11 2:20 ` Tim Hockin
2011-02-11 3:20 ` Greg KH
[not found] ` <AANLkTin3tu-NiotpzWaQ_ubV0jumb_WsjEK5QGi5w56o@mail.gmail.com>
2011-02-11 18:00 ` Mike Waychison
2011-02-11 18:32 ` Greg KH
2011-02-11 18:56 ` Mike Waychison
2011-02-11 19:12 ` Greg KH
2011-02-11 9:54 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2011-02-11 2:04 ` Rob Lippert
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