From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758790AbZBRV44 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:56:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753106AbZBRV4q (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:56:46 -0500 Received: from smtp.netsonic.fi ([194.29.192.26]:46514 "EHLO smtp.netsonic.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752289AbZBRV4q (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:56:46 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1780 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:56:46 EST X-Hashcash: 1:20:090218:linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org::yOGh5UuyIg9WHDUg:0000000000000000000000000000000001HYa X-Hashcash: 1:20:090218:gerickson@nuovations.com::0Hij+dP+YaBlDESR:00000000000000000000000000000000000007e4+ From: Timo Juhani Lindfors To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Grant Erickson Subject: Re: [RFC] Add Alternative Log Buffer Support for printk Messages Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:27:04 +0200 Message-ID: <844oyrqvvb.fsf@sauna.l.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, we have been looking for a way to preserve panic messages over reboot on the openmoko neo freerunner phone so you might find useful ideas from http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/2135 I wrote a 55-line patch (before knowing about your patch) that does what I need but I am not a kernel developer so it is not of very high quality. I hope your more general patch will get to the mainline. best regards, Timo Lindfors