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From: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
To: jlbec@evilplan.org, hch@lst.de
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: configfs: Create config_item from netconsole
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2023 07:44:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZRWRal5bW93px4km@gmail.com> (raw)

Right now there is a limitation in netconsole, where it is impossible to
disable or modify the target created from the command line parameter.
(netconsole=...).

"netconsole" cmdline parameter sets the remote IP, and if the remote IP
changes, the machine needs to be rebooted (with the new remote IP set in
the command line parameter).

I am planning to reuse the dynamic netconsole mechanism for
the 'command line' target, i.e., create a `cmdline` configfs_item for
the "command line" target, so, the user can modify the "command line"
target in configfs in runtime. Something as :

	echo 0 > /sys/kernel/config/netconsole/cmdline/enabled
	echo <new-IP> > /sys/kernel/config/netconsole/cmdline/remote_ip
	echo 1 > /sys/kernel/config/netconsole/cmdline/enabled

I didn't find a configfs API to register a configfs_item into a
config_group. Basically the make_item() callbacks are called once the
inode is created by the user at mkdir(2) time, but now I need to create
it at the driver initialization.

Should I create a configfs_register_item() to solve this problem?

Thanks!

             reply	other threads:[~2023-09-28 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-28 14:44 Breno Leitao [this message]
2023-09-29 18:51 ` configfs: Create config_item from netconsole Joel Becker
2023-10-02 14:23   ` Breno Leitao

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