On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 14:53 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 20:56, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 18:05:14 +0300 Denis Karpov <ext-denis.2.karpov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > hm, I'm uncertain on the desirability or otherwise of the > > overall feature. I think the idea is a good one. It allows a distribution to take more proactive measures before services just start dying randomly later. I could see this nicely wrapped up with some kind of GUI dialog presented to the desktop user announcing impending doom, too. > Uevents should not be used for error reporting Not as currently implemented - but I think the idea of having kernel events for this kind of thing isn't a bad one, nor is the idea of listening on a netlink socket for news about them rather than writing library code to poll whatever procfs file and parse its content. Jon. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
