Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:17:42 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Using kevent for event logging? |
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On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:57:08 +0100 Michael Holzheu <holzheu2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hallo Evgeniy, > > On s390 we are looking for a good mechanism to notify userspace > about kernel events. Currently such events are handled with printks > in most cases. There are automation tools, which want to automatically > react on kernel events. To get the event information, these tools are > parsing printks, which is not a really good mechanism for that > purpose. > > When I read about kevents, I was wondering, if it could be used to solve > this problem. E.g. it would be possible to put an event number into a > kevent and provide another interface to get the complete event data. >
Wouldn't one simply transport the info across netlink, use kevent (or select/poll/whatever) for readiness notification? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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