How to store kernel pranic/oops

2009-12-28 Thread Marco Stornelli
Hi, I know the open project proposal 2010 is closed, but it's just to start a discussion. It would be nice to save oops/panic automatically in a structure/file in ram. At the moment there are two way to save information: mtdoops (save the information in flash), with kdump/kexec (we can extract

Re: How to store kernel pranic/oops

2009-12-28 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 12:43 +0100, Marco Stornelli wrote: It would be nice to have a ramoops to save in a circular buffer in a persistent ram this kind of information. Any comments? Is there already anything similar out-of-tree? Can't it be done with what's in the tree already? Just create an