Re: OOPS problems
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
31 Dec 1998 07:28:23 GMT
Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981230154842.5379A-100000@ps.cus.umist.ac.uk>
By author: Riley Williams <rhw@bigfoot.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hi there.
>
> There seems to be a lot of people having problems with recording OOPS
> messages, so perhaps it ought to be easier to do so?
>
> One apparently obvious means to do so would be to have a 'kernel log
> level' for OOPS messages, and let the kernel logging system deal with
> it. Since this hasn't been done, I would assume there's something
> wrong with this idea, so perhaps somebody can advise me what?
>
> In case there isn't anything wrong with it, the following patch should
> set up the relevant facilities...although precicely what log level
> should be allocated to OOPS messages is debatable...
>
This would really muck up syslogd/klogd I believe...
I would say log them as KERN_ERR...
-hpa
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