Re: [PATCH] [RFC] emit-crash-char: Allow diversion of printk output for crash logging

[Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 06:30:54PM -0700, David VomLehn wrote:
> Grant Likely wrote:
>
>> I'm not thrilled with this patch.  It seems so much more straight
>> forward in your special case, but it comes at the expense of making
>> the code path more complex in every other case.
>>
>> I would much rather see this be done using the existing console driver
>> interface.  The only possible reason I could see wanting to do things
>> this way is if you don't trust the console code to call your console
>> driver, which I think is a pretty unlikely case.
>
> I'll buy that reasoning.
>
> Regardless of implementation, it seems to me that it could be of use for 
> some other embedded platforms. Any suggestions as to where it should go 
> in the tree? drivers/char? drivers/misc?

Depends on what you're storing to.  Can you send more details about the
specific use case that you will use this interface for?

g.