linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v2] device coredump: add new device coredump class

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Date:	Fri, 05 Sep 2014 11:56:25 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Jonas Gorski <jogo@...nwrt.org>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>,
	Luciano Coelho <luca@...lho.fi>, Kalle Valo <kvalo@...rom.com>,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2] device coredump: add new device coredump class

On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 11:40 +0200, Jonas Gorski wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@...solutions.net> wrote:
> > From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
> 
> Can't you just send from the correct address? ;p

Not easily :)

> How about the following to avoid negative options:
> 
> config DEV_COREDUMP
>        bool "Enable device coredump" if EXPERT
>        default y if WANT_DEV_COREDUMP
>        help
>          Enable the device coredump mechanism for drivers wanting to
>          use it. Disabling allows for more sensitive systems or systems that
>          don't want to ever access the information to not have the code,
>          nor keep any data.
> 
>          If unsure, say Y.

Yeah, that seems reasonable. I guess I did the negative option because I
was thinking about the negative case ("I really don't want this!!!
111!!") :)

johannes

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