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charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Hi, first, I am sorry for joining the game so late. I was sick and have had a lot of pending tasks after Christmas's holidays and the sickness. On Thu 2024-02-01 13:12:39, Sreenath Vijayan wrote: > Hi, > > This patch series enables one to dump the messages in printk ring > buffer unless all CPUs are locked up. This is useful to view the > kernel messages when terminal is unresponsive to enter commands > like dmesg and syslog services are also disabled, especially on > embedded targets. What is the exact scenario for this feature, please? IMHO, rewinding the entire log on an unresponsive terminal has a questionable value. Most messages would scroll down quickly and only the last messages would stay visible. Also this code would rewind all consoles, including (slow) serial ones. I wonder if rewind on these consoles would be useful as well. That said, I am not completely against this feature. I just want to be sure that it does what you expect. Best Regards, Petr