linux-kernel - Re: [POC] printk: Convert dict ring into array

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Date:   Fri, 11 Sep 2020 13:15:33 +0206
From:   John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc:     Changki Kim <changki.kim@...sung.com>,
        sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        changbin.du@...el.com, masahiroy@...nel.org, rd.dunlap@...il.com,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, krzk@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [POC] printk: Convert dict ring into array

On 2020-09-11, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com> wrote:
> I would like to go this way in the long term because it looks like the
> most easy and reliable solution.

This change is technically trivial and I don't have any problems with
it. Actually it follows the agreement made at the meeting in Lisbon [0]
of "support for printk dictionaries will be discontinued".

So there will be no more dictionaries, but subsystem and device
information will continue to exist as extended record data.

John Ogness

[0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87k1acz5rx.fsf@linutronix.de