Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Apr 2012 14:33:45 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5] ramoops: use pstore interface |
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On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 13:51:29 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 > > > > What is the status of this patch? Don't see it in 3.3 and haven't > > checked 3.4-rc1 yet. > > Hi, > > I've been hoping it would get into 3.4. It's in the -mm tree, and has > been living in linux-next for a while. I'm not sure why it hasn't been > merged into Linus's tree yet. Andrew, is there a reason it hasn't been > merged?
The patch breaks ramoops module unloading. Tony says there's "no credible end-user case" for this and Marco promptly provided one, which was ignored.
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