Re: My position on general ``RAS'' tool support infrastructure

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To: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...>
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Date: Monday, September 17, 2007 - 9:38 pm

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:21:10 -0600 Eric W. Biederman wrote:



Yes.  and I re-read it.

There are several things in Keith's email that make sense:

a.  all RAS tools should use a common interface
b.  it's not the kernel's job to decide which RAS tool runs first


Eric makes some good points too.  I'm mostly similar to Eric:
paranoid about trusting software/hardware after a panic (or oops).

So if someone wants to use multiple RAS tools on a panic event,
enabling an admin to set priorities is OK with me, but I'll only
trust the first one that is used, and even that one may have
problems.  IOW, I don't see a big need to support multiple RAS
tools at one time.  (speaking for myself)



Ack that.

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My position on general ``RAS'' tool support infrastructure, Eric W. Biederman, (Thu Sep 13, 9:21 am)
Re: My position on general ``RAS'' tool support infrastructure, Randy Dunlap, (Mon Sep 17, 9:38 pm)