At Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:39:53 -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. > > Special thanks to Borislav Petkov for many improvements and kicking my > behind to provide a proper git tree and resend patches. > > A number of cleanup patches could be folded into the main patch, but I > decided not to mess with git history and leave any further mistakes > for the world to laugh at: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joern/bcon2.git
I got a build error after pulling onto the latest Linus tree. Also I have another couple of trivial fixes. The patches will follow. thanks, 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/