Messages in this thread | | | From | "Luck, Tony" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH v5] ramoops: use pstore interface | Date | Mon, 9 Apr 2012 21:42:09 +0000 |
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> The patch breaks ramoops module unloading. Tony says there's "no > credible end-user case" for this and Marco promptly provided one, > which was ignored.
I'm not sure that I understood Marco's use case. He said:
> 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.
In the non-crashed oops case ... aren't all the logs you need in /var/log/messages?
-Tony
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