From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753238Ab3CTWwk (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:52:40 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:57739 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752198Ab3CTWwg (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:52:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:52:31 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Andrew Morton Cc: Joern Engel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Moyer , Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Add blockconsole version 1.1 (try 2) Message-ID: <20130320225231.GG15471@pd.tnic> Mail-Followup-To: Borislav Petkov , Andrew Morton , Joern Engel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Moyer , Takashi Iwai References: <1362087602-8979-1-git-send-email-joern@logfs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1362087602-8979-1-git-send-email-joern@logfs.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Andrew, On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 04:39:53PM -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. any thoughts on this? Blockconsole is very useful in certain situations and a bunch of people are using it already and it would be nice if we could get it moving towards upstream. So I'd appreciate it if you could take a look and maybe even pick it up if there are no serious issues with it. Thanks a bunch. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. --