Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Jun 2011 21:55:07 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] efi: Add support for using efivars as a pstore backend |
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On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 01:52:32PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> It depends on your level of paranoia - and on what problems > you think might occur. In an ideal world all the back-ends > would work - and we'd just use one until it filled up, and > then move to the next. in the real world one of the back-ends > might just randomly hang the system - converting a crashing > system into a hung system (which many people consider a more > severe problem). Giving a user an opt-out method for a back-end > looks good in that scenario.
Yeah. I guess the question then is whether the mediation should be in pstore or at the platform backend level. strcmp in pstore_register seems somehow fragile for this, but I guess it'd work?
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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