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Message-ID: <20070703094702.GA11992@angel.research.nokia.com>
Date:	Tue, 3 Jul 2007 12:47:02 +0300
From:	Jarkko Lavinen <jarkko.lavinen@...ia.com>
To:	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...nedhand.com>
Cc:	dedekind@...radead.org, linux-mtd <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] oops and panic message logging to MTD

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:00:54AM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> Its not a case of formatting the whole partition. The whole point of
> this code is the following use case:
> 
> 1. Device crashes
> 2. Device reboots
> 3. mtdoops partition has a log of why it crashed

The oops logger uses oops_in_progress variable to detect the begin and the 
end of an oops.  The end is detected when the first non-oops line comes and
oops_in_progress is false.

This works if the kernel is still running after the oops and gemerates some 
non-oops messages.  But if there is no non-oops line following an oops, no
flushing will occur and there won't be a log on flash.

Jarkko Lavinen
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