Greetings, It's also worthwhile for embedded devices. In that space, I may not care about power loss (from a support standpoint) but would be interested if a watchdog reset happened.
G'day, sjames On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > On 25 Apr 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > > I don't know, it just seems like it might be useful at some point. > > > > O.k. Then let's add it when it becomes useful. :) > > consider this case. We drop from linux back into linuxbios. If linuxbios > knows it is a reboot, it can just add to the log buffer instead of > resetting it. Otherwise, linuxbios might have to assume that the log > buffer is invalid every time it is started. > > It would be useful (to me) to have a continuous log buffer from multiple > reboot/restart of linuxbios. At the very least it makes it a higher > probability that the data will make it into /var/log/messages. > > This is your fault -- I only thought of it when I saw some of your 'see if > this is reboot or powerup' code in linuxbios :-) > > ron >
