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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, San Mehat <san@google.com>,
	Aaron Durbin <adurbin@google.com>,
	Duncan Laurie <dlaurie@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 6/6] driver: Google Memory Console
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:00:31 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110125020031.GA3389@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110125002505.12637.84140.stgit@mike.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 04:25:05PM -0800, Mike Waychison wrote:
> This patch introduces the 'memconsole' driver.
> 
> Our firmware gives us access to an in-memory log of the firmware's
> output.   This gives us visibility in a data-center of headless machines
> as to what the firmware is doing.
> 
> The memory console is found by the driver by finding a header block in
> the EBDA.  The buffer is then copied out, and is currently prepended
> to the kernel's dmesg ring-buffer.

Why does this have to be the first thing in the dmesg buffer?
What's wrong with it showing up whenever this driver is loaded like all
other drivers?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-25  1:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-25  0:24 [PATCH v1 0/6] google firmware support Mike Waychison
2011-01-25  0:24 ` [PATCH v1 1/6] Add oops notification chain Mike Waychison
2011-01-25  2:06   ` Greg KH
2011-01-25 20:01     ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-25 21:36       ` Jeff Garzik
2011-01-25 21:43         ` Aaron Durbin
2011-01-25 21:54           ` Jeff Garzik
2011-01-25 22:21             ` Aaron Durbin
2011-01-26  2:48               ` Greg KH
2011-01-26 21:50                 ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-25  0:24 ` [PATCH v1 2/6] Introduce CONFIG_GOOGLE_FIRMWARE Mike Waychison
2011-01-25  0:24 ` [PATCH v1 3/6] driver: Google EFI SMI Mike Waychison
2011-01-25  3:17   ` Greg KH
2011-01-25 23:12     ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-26  2:46       ` Greg KH
2011-01-26 23:58         ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-27  1:22           ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-27 23:41             ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-28  2:56               ` Greg KH
2011-02-20  4:44               ` Matt Domsch
2011-02-21 13:58                 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-01-27 10:43           ` Alan Cox
2011-01-27 19:22             ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-28  2:55               ` Greg KH
2011-01-28  2:59           ` Greg KH
2011-01-25  0:24 ` [PATCH v1 4/6] driver: Google Bootlog Mike Waychison
2011-01-25  0:49   ` Alan Cox
2011-01-25  1:38     ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-25  9:43       ` Alan Cox
2011-01-25  0:25 ` [PATCH v1 5/6] Allow prepending to the dmesg Mike Waychison
2011-01-25  1:01   ` Andrew Morton
2011-01-25  0:25 ` [PATCH v1 6/6] driver: Google Memory Console Mike Waychison
2011-01-25  2:00   ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-01-25  3:01 ` [PATCH v1 0/6] google firmware support Greg KH
2011-01-25 19:58   ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-26  2:47     ` Greg KH

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