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Message-ID: <AANLkTimCBX7FSBByeOmCp_ofYvmFeE8OF85OzB5tfjhw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:10:53 -0800
From:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	Jim Keniston <jkenisto@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] persistent store

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com> wrote:
> Yes - I assume here that the last "data_size" bytes will be enough
> to be useful. But in your case it most likely won't be.  You could
> lie about how much space you allow and then include some oops
> parsing code to get the vital bits out of what is passed to you. Not
> pretty - but it would work. If there are many such devices with limited
> capacity, then it would make sense to include this parsing code
> in this generic layer.

Sorry - finding the good bits from the console log is architecture
dependent ... so it can't be done (easily) in the generic code.

-Tony
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