At Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:52:31 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 04:39:53PM -0500, Joern Engel wrote: > > Blockconsole is a console driver very roughly similar to netconsole. > > Instead of sending messages out via UDP, they are written to a block > > device. Typically a USB stick is chosen, although in principle any > > block device will do. > > > > In most cases blockconsole is useful where netconsole is not, i.e. > > single machines without network access or without an accessable > > netconsole capture server. When using both blockconsole and > > netconsole, I have found netconsole to sometimes create a mess under > > high message load (sysrq-t, etc.) while blockconsole does not. > > > > Most importantly, a number of bugs were identified and fixed that > > would have been unexplained machine reboots without blockconsole. > > > > More highlights: > > * reasonably small and self-contained code, > > * some 100+ machine years of runtime, > > * nice tutorial with a 30-sec guide for the impatient. > > any thoughts on this? > > Blockconsole is very useful in certain situations and a bunch of people > are using it already and it would be nice if we could get it moving > towards upstream. > > So I'd appreciate it if you could take a look and maybe even pick it up > if there are no serious issues with it.
FYI, blockconsole was already merged in linux-next tree. Takashi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
