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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arend van Spriel <aspriel@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] sysfs: allow user-space request for devcoredump
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 19:46:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180109184605.GA28273@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1513677802-3031-1-git-send-email-arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:03:20AM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> From: Arend van Spriel <aspriel@gmail.com>
> 
> Since commit 833c95456a70 ("device coredump: add new device coredump class")
> device drivers have a unified way to provide binary data obtained from a
> failing_device to user-space. However, there may be use-cases in which the
> driver has no reason to obtain the data, but user-space wants to initiate
> it. This adds a coredump device attribute in sysfs when the driver bound to
> the device supports the newly added coredump driver callback.

What driver is going to set this?  I don't want to add new options to
the kernel that never get used, do you have a driver to use it?

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-01-09 18:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-19 10:03 Arend van Spriel
2017-12-19 10:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] sysfs: add attribute specification for /sysfs/devices/.../coredump Arend van Spriel
2017-12-19 10:03 ` [PATCH 2/2] drivers: base: add coredump driver ops Arend van Spriel
2018-01-09 18:46 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
     [not found]   ` <CAJ65rDyGSirKUqWkXZomMQMA0d=xy=Kc1STzQyKNVymuK_-aMA@mail.gmail.com>
2018-01-09 19:21     ` Fwd: [PATCH 0/2] sysfs: allow user-space request for devcoredump Arend van Spriel
2018-01-09 20:03       ` Greg KH
2018-01-09 20:06         ` Arend van Spriel
2018-01-10  8:22           ` Greg KH

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