On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:01:09 +0900
Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> The netconsole is a very useful module for collecting kernel message under
> certain circumstances(e.g. disk logging fails, serial port is unavailable).
>
> But current netconsole is not flexible. For example, if you want to change ip
> address for logging agent, in the case of built-in netconsole, you can't
> change
> config except for changing boot parameter and rebooting your system, or in the
> case of module netconsole, you need to reload netconsole module.
If netconsole is a module, you should be able to remove it and reload
with different parameters.
> So, I propose the following extended features for netconsole.
>
> 1) support for multiple logging agents.
> 2) add interface to access each parameter of netconsole
> using sysfs.
>
> This patch is for linux-2.6.20-rc1-mm1 and is divided to each function.
> Your comments are very welcome.
Rather than extending the existing kludge with module parameter, to
sysfs. I would rather see a better API for this. Please build think
about doing a better API with a basic set of ioctl's. Some additional
things:
- shouldn't just be IPV4 specific, should handle IPV6 as well
- shouldn't specify MAC address, it can do network discovery/arp to
find that when adding addresses
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
