Re: [PATCH 12/12] usb: use IRQ watching

[Jean Delvare]

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:30:00 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 00:19, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hmm... maybe what we can do is generating an uevent when an IRQ is
> > confirmed to be bad and then let udev notify the user. ÂThat way we'll
> > probably have better chance of getting bug reports and users have
> > whiny but working system.
> 
> Not really, uevents are not picked up by anything that could report an
> error to userspace, they are just seen by udev. Also uevents are
> usually not the proper passing method. They are not meant to ever
> transport higher frequency events, or structured data. They cause to
> run the entire udev rule matching machine, and update symlinks and
> permissions with every event.
> 
> We will need some better error reporting facility. On Linux you don't
> even get notified when the kernel mounts your filesystem read-only
> because of an error. It will only end up in 'dmesg' as a pretty much
> undefined bunch of words. :)
> 
> We will need some generic error reporting facility, with structured
> data exported, and where userspace stuff can subscribe to.
> Uevents/udev can not really properly provide such infrastructure.
> Maybe that can be extended somehow, but using kobject_uevent() and
> trigger the usual udev rule engine is not what we are looking for, for
> sane error reporting.

Random idea of the day (I don't know anything about it all): let the
kernel connect to D-Bus and use it somehow?

-- 
Jean Delvare
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