Messages in this thread | | | From | Seiji Aguchi <> | Subject | RE: [RFC][PATCH v2 2/3] Hold multiple logs | Date | Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:24:38 +0000 |
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> What is the harm of not using this and just letting the number be infinite (or until EFI runs out of space)? Is it a big deal if extra failures > are logged?
There may be someone using NVRAM for other purposes. Actually, we have the user interface, /sys/firmware/efi/vars/new_vars, del_vars.
In this case, they want to avoid filling with unneeded logs.
> The hope would be a daemon would clear the old logs out and you never run out of space.
In most case But as Tony mentioned, NVRAM may be filled with multiple oops even if we have the daemon.
Seiji
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