linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/6] Add oops notification chain.

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Message-ID: <4D3F4275.50709@garzik.org>
Date:	Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:36:53 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Mike Waychison <mikew@...gle.com>
CC:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	San Mehat <san@...gle.com>, Aaron Durbin <adurbin@...gle.com>,
	Duncan Laurie <dlaurie@...gle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tim Hockin <thockin@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/6] Add oops notification chain.

On 01/25/2011 03:01 PM, Mike Waychison wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Greg KH<greg@...ah.com>  wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 04:24:39PM -0800, Mike Waychison wrote:
>>> From: Aaron Durbin<adurbin@...gle.com>
>>>
>>> Later firmware patches in this series would like to be able to be
>>> notified whenever an oops occurs on the system, so that it can be
>>> recorded in the boot log.
>>>
>>> This patch introduces a notifier_block called "oops_notifier_list"
>>> so that drivers can register to get called whenever an Oops is
>>> triggered.
>>
>> But we already have a panic notifier list.  Why create a new one?
>> What's wrong with the existing one that doesn't work properly for you?
>
> AFAICT, the panic notifier list doesn't get called on oops.

Have you tried playing with panic_on_oops ?

	Jeff


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