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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/printk.c  lockless access
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 11:26:48 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050107002648.GD14239@krispykreme.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050106161241.11a8d07c.akpm@osdl.org>

 
> 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

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-07  0:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-06 19:58 Linas Vepstas
2005-01-06 20:50 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-07  0:12 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-07  0:26   ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2005-01-07  0:25     ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-01-07  1:54       ` Alan Cox
2005-01-09 10:44         ` Frank van Maarseveen
2005-01-09 22:31           ` David Wagner
2005-01-09 23:00           ` Alan Cox
2005-01-10 20:43             ` Matt Mackall
2005-01-08  2:37 ` Keith Owens

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