Re: [PATCH] efi: Avoid sysfs spew on reboot and panic

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu Sep 22 2011 - 09:15:31 EST


On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:21:58AM +0800, Chen Gong wrote:
> ä 2011/9/21 20:40, Matthew Garrett åé:
> >On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:31:40AM +0800, Chen Gong wrote:
> >>> mutex_lock(&psinfo->buf_mutex);
> >>> memcpy(psinfo->buf, buf, size);
> >>>- id = psinfo->write(type, 0, size, psinfo);
> >>>+ id = psinfo->write(type, 0, KMSG_DUMP_UNKNOWN, size, psinfo);
> >>
> >>I can't say it is wrong because no real caller for this function, but I can't
> >>say it is right, yet. KMSG_DUMP_UNKNOWN here looks too arbirary. Do you have
> >>any reason to use this type here ?
> >
> >If a function calls pstore_write() directly then we have no type to
> >associate with it. It seems worth making this explicit.
>
> Yep, that's the point. We hope to get a more reasonable method to do it, not
> any assumption.

I'm afraid I don't understand. Could you give an example of how you
think this should look?

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