On Wed, 25 July 2012 09:17:09 +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote: > > As far as I know there is nothing like netpoll in the block layer so it has > to > be a lot less reliable than netconsole. Especially with delaying write out to > a workqueue. Anyway, I am not arguing, just saying in my opinion those > caveats > are worth documenting. ... > My point was that it's reliability will differ depending on the block device > in use, which is unlike netconsole. Again I am not arguing against the > feature, but if you don't see things like these are worth documenting I give > up.
I have nothing against documenting things. Can you suggest something better than "reliability of blockconsole will depend on the reliability of the underlying storage layer", which sounds rather obvious? Jörn -- I don't understand it. Nobody does. -- Richard P. Feynman -- 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/
