Re: [PATCH v5] ramoops: use pstore interface

[Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>]

Il 09/04/2012 23:42, Luck, Tony ha scritto:
>> The patch breaks ramoops module unloading.  Tony says there's "no
>> credible end-user case" for this and Marco promptly provided one,
>> which was ignored.
>
> I'm not sure that I understood Marco's use case. He said:
>
>> First of all ramoops was born mainly for debug purpose and
>> to help the maintainability of a product. I used it in systems
>> where the uptime (so no reboot) was important. So it can be
>> very useful for me load the module, gather logs and unload it
>> for example. A kernel panic is not recoverable so the reboot
>> is needed but it's not always true for a kernel oops.
>
> In the non-crashed oops case ... aren't all the logs you need
> in /var/log/messages?
>
> -Tony

Maybe you right, but it could be useful to have a "single log point" 
especially for automatic/semi-automatic log gathering. I'm not sure we 
can *always* read from messages in case of non-crashed oops. Sure, it 
will be possible after a reboot, but if /var was mounted with tmpfs (on 
embedded systems it's possible :)) we have no log.

PS: It's only a brainstorming on all the possible situation :)

Marco