From: Grant Erickson <gerickson@nuovations•com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, Stefan Roese <sr@denx•de>,
Wolfgang Denx <wd@denx•de>,
linux-embedded@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Add Alternative Log Buffer Support for printk Messages
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:11:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C5894F3F.13C20%gerickson@nuovations.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1231286642.14860.35.camel@pasglop>
On 1/6/09 4:04 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 10:34 -0800, Grant Erickson wrote:
>> This merges support for the previously DENX-only kernel feature of
>> specifying an alternative, "external" buffer for kernel printk
>> messages and their associated metadata. In addition, this ports
>> architecture support for this feature from arch/ppc to arch/powerpc.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Grant Erickson <gerickson@nuovations•com>
>
> Considering the extensive changes to generic code, this patch will
> have to be submitted via the linux-kernel mailing list.
>
> I suggest you split the generic core change from the powerpc specific
> implementation.
>
> I'm not sure whether I like the idea myself or not there, so you'll have
> to convince the powers that be to take it.
Ben:
Thanks for the feedback. Matt Sealey had some good feedback
<http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-November/065594.html> which I
have on my to-do list to evaluate.
In the interim, I'll hold off on pushing up to linux-kernel until I've done
that.
Regards,
Grant
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-07 2:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-25 18:34 [PATCH/RFC] Add Alternative Log Buffer Support for printk Messages Grant Erickson
2008-11-25 18:53 ` Matt Sealey
2008-11-25 18:55 ` Josh Boyer
2008-11-25 19:01 ` Matt Sealey
2008-11-25 19:04 ` Grant Erickson
2008-11-25 19:31 ` Matt Sealey
2008-11-25 19:51 ` Bill Gatliff
2008-11-25 20:07 ` Matt Sealey
2008-11-25 20:17 ` Grant Likely
2008-11-25 20:46 ` Matt Sealey
2008-11-25 20:19 ` Bill Gatliff
2008-11-25 20:54 ` David VomLehn
2008-11-25 21:45 ` David Brownell
2008-11-26 20:57 ` Matt Sealey
2008-11-25 20:14 ` Grant Likely
2008-11-25 21:05 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-11-25 21:14 ` Matt Sealey
2008-11-26 1:23 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-01-07 0:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-01-07 2:11 ` Grant Erickson [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=C5894F3F.13C20%gerickson@nuovations.com \
--to=gerickson@nuovations$(echo .)com \
--cc=benh@kernel$(echo .)crashing.org \
--cc=linux-embedded@vger$(echo .)kernel.org \
--cc=linuxppc-dev@ozlabs$(echo .)org \
--cc=sr@denx$(echo .)de \
--cc=wd@denx$(echo .)de \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox