Re: [PATCH] [RESENDING] netconsole: register cmdline netconsoleconfigs to configfs

From: Matt Mackall
Date: Mon Feb 11 2008 - 11:31:13 EST



On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 18:08 +0900, Joonwoo Park wrote:
> This patch intorduces cmdline netconsole configs to register to
> configfs
> with dynamic netconsole. Satyam Sharma who designed shiny dynamic
> reconfiguration for netconsole, mentioned about this issue already.
> (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/29/360)
> But I think, without separately managing of two kind of netconsole
> target
> objects, it's possible by using config_group instead of
> config_item in the netconsole_target and default_groups feature of
> configfs.
>
> Patch was tested with configuration creation/destruction by kernel and
> module.
> And it makes possible to enable/disable, modify and review netconsole
> target configs from cmdline.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to leave review of this to someone who is
clueful about configfs. But it seems reasonable.

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