Re: [PATCH 7/8] ACPI, APEI, CPER: Cleanup CPER memory error outputformat

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:12:35AM -0700, Tony Luck wrote:
> This is an excellent idea - if the full data is being logged via
> TRACE, then we can drop to virtually nothing on the console (just have
> something similar to the "Machine check events logged" message so that
> people will get a tip that they might want to go dig into other logs).
> Maybe something like: %d corrected memory errors\n", count [rate
> limited]
>
> But we'd have to make sure that the existing user(s) of this code also
> have a TRACE path.

It is basically the same idea as with the ras daemon - if we have a
userspace consumer of ras trace events, we disable dmesg output. So the
decision will be left to the userspace tool to disable dmesg output as a
last step of its initialization.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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