Bela Lubkin wrote:
>> Implement a console driver to log messages to SEL when 
>> oops_in_progress is
>> not zero. The message is logging as OEM event without timestamp.
> 
> Why without timestamp?  Sometimes time information is significant in a
> crash.  If you log with timestamps, and at least one of the oops texts
> also prints a timestamp, you're taking a spot measure of the time skew
> between the BMC and host -- a potentially valuable bit of information.

The main reason is that SEL size is limited and I think the timestamp
area (4 bytes) of each entry is quite large.
I'm not sure whether this timestamp is so important.
Could you please explain a bit more about this?

Thanks,
Hiroshi


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