> On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 16:13 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > same sort of things as the point of David's code. early/crash > > scenarios for people to safely extract portions of the kernel log > > buffer for transmission/storage elsewhere. as was explained in the > > original thread behind the commit. > > How is that code suppose to help anyone if you aren't calling it from > anyplace in the kernel? Clearly your using it, right? Where > is the code > your calling these functions from? > > Daniel Not that it was in the patch, but netconsole would be an obvious potential user. It would be most useful in board specific startup code such as arch/ppc/platforms, where a particular board might have a place to put information like this for later retrieval. One would hope that such board specific file would be forthcoming, rather than be maintained out-of-tree. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
