netdev - Re: [PATCH] [RESENDING] netconsole: register cmdline netconsole configs to configfs

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Message-Id: <1202747413.28085.1.camel@cinder.waste.org>
Date:	Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:30:13 -0600
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Joonwoo Park <joonwpark81@...il.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, satyam@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RESENDING] netconsole: register cmdline netconsole
	configs to configfs


On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 18:08 +0900, Joonwoo Park wrote:
> This patch intorduces cmdline netconsole configs to register to
> configfs
> with dynamic netconsole. Satyam Sharma who designed shiny dynamic
> reconfiguration for netconsole, mentioned about this issue already.
> (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/29/360)
> But I think, without separately managing of two kind of netconsole
> target
> objects, it's possible by using config_group instead of
> config_item in the netconsole_target and default_groups feature of
> configfs.
> 
> Patch was tested with configuration creation/destruction by kernel and
> module.
> And it makes possible to enable/disable, modify and review netconsole
> target configs from cmdline.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to leave review of this to someone who is
clueful about configfs. But it seems reasonable.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

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