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Event logging vs enhancing printk

DISCUSSION Larry Kessler 1 participant 1 message Apr 10, 2002

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Michael Holzheu wrote...

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I think it would be important to have both options:
feed printk messages into posix event logging (this does the current patch as far as I know)

The current patch forks the message to evlog inside the printk function. This thread is proposing that the printk function be wrapped inside a macro so you could easily capture file/funcname/lineno of the calling function along with the original printk message
(plus the other stuff stored in the evlog record header).

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AND feed events
which are written with the new posix event APIs into the traditional syslogd logging.

This would be done in user-space, not in the kernel. This is on our enhancements list for event logging.