On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 17:43 -0400, Dale Ghent wrote:
> Just a quick question, and I don't think this three-letter acronym
> has been mentioned yet...
>
> But as far as purely link up/down status goes (irregardless of what
> speed, duplex, and so on), wouldn't this be the domain of FMA?
IMHO, it would. I haven't quite digested this entire case but it seems
to me that the very notion of sending raw link state changes to syslog
goes against the FMA architecture.
> It's plausible that link state changes could be considered "faulty".
As I understand FMA, link state changes would be error reports --
observations made by error detectors that aren't necessarily indications
of faults, but rather as evidence to be considered by a diagnosis engine
that may indicate an underlying fault somewhere in the system.
For instance, I'd expect a DE to apply some amount of flap dampening
based on recent history before declaring that a link had actually
failed.
IMHO, it is inconsistent with FMA to declare that syslogged link status
notifications from a driver form any kind of interface.
- Bill
