[PATCH v5 0/11] Merge ram_console into pstore

John Stultz john.stultz at linaro.org
Thu Jun 14 00:29:28 UTC 2012


On 06/13/2012 05:20 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 05:12:14PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
>> On 06/13/2012 05:05 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 06:17:48AM -0700, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
>>>> The old ram_console driver is removed. This might probably cause
>>>> some pain for out-of-tree code, as it would need to be adjusted...
>>>> but "no pain, no gain"? :-) Though, if there's some serious resistance,
>>>> we can probably postpone the last two patches.
>>> What out-of-tree code would care about this?
>> I think he's referring to the persistent_ftrace work in the Android tree.
>>
>> Anton did send out patches to try to get equivalent functionality
>> working with pstore, but I don't know if Colin or anyone else from
>> the Android team has had a chance to review it and make sure its
>> sufficient.
> I thought Colin did review these, as I see his acked-by on a number of
> these patches...
Right, Colin reviewed the ram_console/pstore work, but I didn't see any 
comment on Anton's "Function tracing support for pstore".

So hopefully the ack from Colin for removing the code is sufficient then.

thanks
-john





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