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Date:	Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:12:14 -0700
From:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@...aro.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@...il.com>, arve@...roid.com,
	Rebecca Schultz Zavin <rebecca@...roid.com>,
	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@...il.com>,
	WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org, patches@...aro.org,
	kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/11] Merge ram_console into pstore

On 06/13/2012 05:05 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 06:17:48AM -0700, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
>> The old ram_console driver is removed. This might probably cause
>> some pain for out-of-tree code, as it would need to be adjusted...
>> but "no pain, no gain"? :-) Though, if there's some serious resistance,
>> we can probably postpone the last two patches.
> What out-of-tree code would care about this?
I think he's referring to the persistent_ftrace work in the Android tree.

Anton did send out patches to try to get equivalent functionality 
working with pstore, but I don't know if Colin or anyone else from the 
Android team has had a chance to review it and make sure its sufficient.

thanks
-john

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