Re: [PATCH] kernel/printk.c lockless access

Anton Blanchard
2005-01-07T00:30:01Z

> We faced the same problem in the Digeo kernel. When the kernel oopses we
> want to grab the last kilobyte or so of the printk buffer and stash it into
> nvram. We did this via a function which copies the data rather than
> exporting all those variables, which I think is a nicer and more
> maintainable approach:

Actually Id love to do this on ppc64 too. Its always difficult to get a
customer to remember to save away an oops report.

Anton