Re: [Freeipmi-devel] IPMI_TRACE

[Albert Chu]

Ahh, I see what you're doing now.

Al

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Albert Chu
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----- Original Message -----
From: Anand Babu <address@hidden>
Date: Friday, April 9, 2004 10:20 pm
Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-devel] IPMI_TRACE

> Yes save_errno is required.
> 
> Purpose of IPMI_TRACE is to enable fprintf display while
> debugging. (only for developers)
> 
> In fact I'm planning to enable even "ERR macro syslog" only in
> IPMI_TRACE. ERR macro is supposed to just return the error safely to
> the parent call. Top most call should gracefully handle the it. 
> 
> For example, failed sensors, non-root execution ... they all are
> handled properly at higher level. But in IPMI_TRACE mode, you will
> notice a trace of all the lower level calls that has failed, spitting
> error messages to the console.
> 
> ,----
> | Perhaps I'm missing something, but why was the #ifndef (IPMI_TRACE)
> | ERR() macro added into ipmi-error.h??  The save_errno code I 
> added into
> | the original ERR() macro was to protect against errno being over-
> written| by fprintf errors.  In particular,
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