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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] ramoops: use pstore interface
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> 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.
> 
> Marco

What is the status of this patch? Don't see it in 3.3 and haven't
checked 3.4-rc1 yet.

-- Shuah