On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 01:51:25PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > I am not sure why you would not want modules to use it - in the case we > have here we detect a catastrophic failure in a critical system > component (embedded controller crashed) and would like to have as much > of the logs saved as possible. It is a module because this kind of EC > may not be present on every system, but when it is present it is very > much a core component. I really don't think this is a kernel poicy in any way. Please do a userspace upcall and let userspace deal with the policy decision.