Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:33:24 +0100 | From | Marco Stornelli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5] ramoops: use pstore interface |
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Il 19/01/2012 00:20, Seiji Aguchi ha scritto: >>> Are there any specific usecases you need to unload ramoops? >> >> For me, it would be useful during development. Beyond that, not that I can see. > > Thank you for your quick relay. I understood this is useful for you. > > But, as Tony said, I think this is a low priority because > there is a side effect for end users. > If they unload ramoops by mistake, messages will be lost. > > In my opinion, we have to consider whether each feature > is truly needed for end users (not for developers). > > Seiji > >
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
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