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Message-ID: <4FD93068.9030301@linaro.org>
Date:	Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:29:28 -0700
From:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@...aro.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@...il.com>, arve@...roid.com,
	Rebecca Schultz Zavin <rebecca@...roid.com>,
	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@...il.com>,
	WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org, patches@...aro.org,
	kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/11] Merge ram_console into pstore

On 06/13/2012 05:20 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 05:12:14PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
>> On 06/13/2012 05:05 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 06:17:48AM -0700, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
>>>> The old ram_console driver is removed. This might probably cause
>>>> some pain for out-of-tree code, as it would need to be adjusted...
>>>> but "no pain, no gain"? :-) Though, if there's some serious resistance,
>>>> we can probably postpone the last two patches.
>>> What out-of-tree code would care about this?
>> I think he's referring to the persistent_ftrace work in the Android tree.
>>
>> Anton did send out patches to try to get equivalent functionality
>> working with pstore, but I don't know if Colin or anyone else from
>> the Android team has had a chance to review it and make sure its
>> sufficient.
> I thought Colin did review these, as I see his acked-by on a number of
> these patches...
Right, Colin reviewed the ram_console/pstore work, but I didn't see any 
comment on Anton's "Function tracing support for pstore".

So hopefully the ack from Colin for removing the code is sufficient then.

thanks
-john


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