Re: [PATCH 0/9] Add blockconsole version 1.1 (try 2)

Takashi Iwai
2013-03-01T17:15:13Z

At Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:39:53 -0500,
Joern Engel wrote:
>
> Blockconsole is a console driver very roughly similar to netconsole.
> Instead of sending messages out via UDP, they are written to a block
> device. Typically a USB stick is chosen, although in principle any
> block device will do.
>
> In most cases blockconsole is useful where netconsole is not, i.e.
> single machines without network access or without an accessable
> netconsole capture server. When using both blockconsole and
> netconsole, I have found netconsole to sometimes create a mess under
> high message load (sysrq-t, etc.) while blockconsole does not.
>
> Most importantly, a number of bugs were identified and fixed that
> would have been unexplained machine reboots without blockconsole.
>
> More highlights:
> * reasonably small and self-contained code,
> * some 100+ machine years of runtime,
> * nice tutorial with a 30-sec guide for the impatient.
>
> Special thanks to Borislav Petkov for many improvements and kicking my
> behind to provide a proper git tree and resend patches.
>
> A number of cleanup patches could be folded into the main patch, but I
> decided not to mess with git history and leave any further mistakes
> for the world to laugh at:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joern/bcon2.git

I got a build error after pulling onto the latest Linus tree. Also I
have another couple of trivial fixes. The patches will follow.

thanks,

Takashi