linux-kernel - Re: [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH 4/5] IPMI: Add console oops catcher

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Message-ID: <20090415150706.GQ8345@ldl.fc.hp.com>
Date:	Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:07:06 -0600
From:	dann frazier <dannf@...com>
To:	Corey Minyard <minyard@....org>
Cc:	Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@...jp.nec.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH 4/5] IPMI: Add console oops catcher

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 09:34:38AM -0500, Corey Minyard wrote:
> Hiroshi Shimamoto wrote:
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:03:37 -0800
> >> Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@...jp.nec.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> ...
> >>>> This reader is unable to determine what the mystery preempt_disable()
> >>>> is here for.  It needs a comment, please.
> >>> I cannot recall why it's here. So a comment is really needed.
> >>> This preempt_disable() may not be needed.
> >>>
> >>>> What happens if two CPUs oops at the same time (which is fairly 
> >>>> common)?
> >>> ...
> >>>
> >>> OK. I'll look at this.
> >>>
> >>>> It would be prudent to have a timeout in this loop.  The machine has
> >>>> crashed and subsystems and hardware and memory are in an unknown and
> >>>> possibly bad state.
> >>> Right.
> >>>
> >>> ...
> >>>
> >>>> This looks like we're abusing the "unblank" method.
> >>>>
> >>>> If you think that the console subsystem is missing some capability
> >>>> which this driver needs then please do prefer to fix the console
> >>>> subsystem, rather than awkwardly making things fit.
> >>> OK. Will take a look about this point.
> >>>
> >>
> >> None of this happened.
> >>
> >> It makes me reluctant to merge that patches as they stand, because then
> >> it all gets forgotten about, whereas holding the patches back will
> >> remind us that updates are needed.
> >
> > Sorry for late reply.
> > I couldn't have time for this patch.
> > I'll look at this again and will resend updates.
> Andrew, can we drop this for now and at get the other patches in?  At 
> least the first one ("Fix platform return check"), since it's an obvious 
> bug fix.

As it should allow us stop shipping a set of forked modules,
ipmi-add-oem-message-handling.patch would be nice too :)

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -corey
> 
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Hiroshi
> >
> 
> 
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dann frazier

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