From: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
To: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
"linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] ramoops: use pstore interface
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:33:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F1A7854.7010808@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5C4C569E8A4B9B42A84A977CF070A35B2DA7A7F237@USINDEVS01.corp.hds.com>
Il 19/01/2012 00:20, Seiji Aguchi ha scritto:
>>> Are there any specific usecases you need to unload ramoops?
>>
>> For me, it would be useful during development. Beyond that, not that I can see.
>
> Thank you for your quick relay. I understood this is useful for you.
>
> But, as Tony said, I think this is a low priority because
> there is a side effect for end users.
> If they unload ramoops by mistake, messages will be lost.
>
> In my opinion, we have to consider whether each feature
> is truly needed for end users (not for developers).
>
> Seiji
>
>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-21 8:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-17 23:58 [PATCH v5] ramoops: use pstore interface Kees Cook
2012-01-18 22:06 ` Andrew Morton
2012-01-18 22:16 ` Kees Cook
2012-01-18 22:40 ` Seiji Aguchi
2012-01-18 22:47 ` Kees Cook
2012-01-18 23:20 ` Seiji Aguchi
2012-01-21 8:33 ` Marco Stornelli [this message]
2012-04-02 20:39 ` Shuah Khan
2012-04-02 20:51 ` Kees Cook
2012-04-02 21:09 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-09 21:33 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-09 21:42 ` Luck, Tony
2012-04-10 8:34 ` Marco Stornelli
2012-04-10 16:11 ` Kees Cook
2012-04-11 6:33 ` Marco Stornelli
2012-04-11 6:37 ` Andrew Morton
2012-01-18 22:37 ` Luck, Tony
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