linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH v5] ramoops: use pstore interface

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Date:	Mon, 9 Apr 2012 21:42:09 +0000
From:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
CC:	"shuahkhan@...il.com" <shuahkhan@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@...il.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v5] ramoops: use pstore interface

> The patch breaks ramoops module unloading.  Tony says there's "no
> credible end-user case" for this and Marco promptly provided one,
> which was ignored.

I'm not sure that I understood Marco's use case. He said:

> First of all ramoops was born mainly for debug purpose and
> to help the maintainability of a product. I used it in systems
> where the uptime (so no reboot) was important. So it can be
> very useful for me load the module, gather logs and unload it
> for example. A kernel panic is not recoverable so the reboot
> is needed but it's not always true for a kernel oops.

In the non-crashed oops case ... aren't all the logs you need
in /var/log/messages?

-Tony

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