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Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 13:51:29 -0700 From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> To: shuahkhan@...il.com, Matt Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] ramoops: use pstore interface On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@...il.com> wrote: >> First of all ramoops was born mainly for debug purpose and to help the >> maintainability of a product. I used it in systems where the uptime (so >> no reboot) was important. So it can be very useful for me load the >> module, gather logs and unload it for example. A kernel panic is not >> recoverable so the reboot is needed but it's not always true for a >> kernel oops. >> >> Marco > > What is the status of this patch? Don't see it in 3.3 and haven't > checked 3.4-rc1 yet. Hi, I've been hoping it would get into 3.4. It's in the -mm tree, and has been living in linux-next for a while. I'm not sure why it hasn't been merged into Linus's tree yet. Andrew, is there a reason it hasn't been merged? http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm-commits&m=132692455101733&w=4 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git;a=commitdiff;h=07eff225ead22b21fe5aba32cd2695248a9e4d1f -Kees -- Kees Cook ChromeOS Security -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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