netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v5 0/3] kernel: add support to collect hardware logs in crash recovery kernel

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Message-Id: <20180424.155452.825338057383489874.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 24 Apr 2018 15:54:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     rahul.lakkireddy@...lsio.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
        stephen@...workplumber.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, ganeshgr@...lsio.com,
        nirranjan@...lsio.com, indranil@...lsio.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 0/3] kernel: add support to collect
 hardware logs in crash recovery kernel

From: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@...lsio.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 22:35:52 +0530

> Patch 1 adds API to vmcore module to allow drivers to register callback
> to collect the device specific hardware/firmware logs.  The logs will
> be added to /proc/vmcore as elf notes.
> 
> Patch 2 updates read and mmap logic to append device specific hardware/
> firmware logs as elf notes.
> 
> Patch 3 shows a cxgb4 driver example using the API to collect
> hardware/firmware logs in crash recovery kernel, before hardware is
> initialized.

Are there any serious remaining objections to this series?  I'm going to
integrate this into net-next soon if not.

Thank you.