From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Add blockconsole version 1.1 (try 2)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:30:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5hip4lp8mp.wl%tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130320225231.GG15471@pd.tnic>
At Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:52:31 +0100,
Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
> 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.
FYI, blockconsole was already merged in linux-next tree.
Takashi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-21 6:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-28 21:39 [PATCH 0/9] Add blockconsole version 1.1 (try 2) Joern Engel
2013-02-28 21:39 ` [PATCH 1/9] do_mounts: constify name_to_dev_t parameter Joern Engel
2013-02-28 21:39 ` [PATCH 2/9] add blockconsole version 1.1 Joern Engel
2013-02-28 21:39 ` [PATCH 3/9] printk: add CON_ALLDATA console flag Joern Engel
2013-03-01 14:52 ` Jeff Moyer
2013-03-01 14:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-03-01 15:08 ` Jeff Moyer
2013-03-01 15:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-03-01 15:42 ` Jeff Moyer
2013-03-01 15:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-03-01 16:15 ` Jörn Engel
2013-02-28 21:39 ` [PATCH 4/9] netconsole: use CON_ALLDATA Joern Engel
2013-02-28 21:39 ` [PATCH 5/9] blockconsole: " Joern Engel
2013-03-01 16:11 ` Jeff Moyer
2013-03-01 16:20 ` Jörn Engel
2013-03-01 17:52 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-03-01 16:31 ` Jörn Engel
2013-03-01 17:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-02-28 21:39 ` [PATCH 6/9] bcon: add a release work struct Joern Engel
2013-02-28 21:40 ` [PATCH 7/9] bcon: check for hdparm in bcon_tail Joern Engel
2013-02-28 21:40 ` [PATCH 8/9] blockconsole: Allow to pass a device file path to bcon_tail Joern Engel
2013-02-28 21:40 ` [PATCH 9/9] bcon: remove version 1.0 support Joern Engel
2013-03-01 17:15 ` [PATCH 0/9] Add blockconsole version 1.1 (try 2) Takashi Iwai
2013-03-01 16:22 ` Jörn Engel
2013-03-05 17:36 ` Takashi Iwai
2013-03-06 19:49 ` Jörn Engel
2013-03-07 18:46 ` Takashi Iwai
2013-03-07 18:51 ` [PATCH 0/3] blockconsole: make it a module Takashi Iwai
2013-03-07 18:51 ` [PATCH 1/3] Export sched_setscheduler_nocheck() Takashi Iwai
2013-03-07 18:51 ` [PATCH 2/3] block/partitions: Support dynamic addition of partition checkers Takashi Iwai
2013-03-07 18:51 ` [PATCH 3/3] blockconsole: Allow to be a module Takashi Iwai
2013-03-01 17:17 ` [PATCH 1/3] blockconsole: Fix undefined MAX_RT_PRIO Takashi Iwai
2013-03-01 17:17 ` [PATCH 2/3] blockconsole: Rename device_lock with bc_device_lock Takashi Iwai
2013-03-01 17:17 ` [PATCH 3/3] blockconsole: Mark a local work struct static Takashi Iwai
2013-03-20 22:52 ` [PATCH 0/9] Add blockconsole version 1.1 (try 2) Borislav Petkov
2013-03-21 6:30 ` Takashi Iwai [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-05-09 20:42 [PATCH 00/14] Add blockconsole version 1.1 (try 3) Joern Engel
2013-05-09 20:43 ` [PATCH 0/9] Add blockconsole version 1.1 (try 2) Joern Engel
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=s5hip4lp8mp.wl%tiwai@suse.de \
--to=tiwai@suse.de \
--cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=bp@alien8.de \
--cc=jmoyer@redhat.com \
--cc=joern@logfs.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox