Re: [PATCH] ramoops: use module parameters instead of platform data if not available

From: Stevie Trujillo
Date: Sat May 28 2011 - 06:05:24 EST


On Saturday 28 May 2011 11:01:12 you wrote:
> From: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Use generic module parameters instead of platform data, if platform
> data are not available. This limitation has been introduced with
> commit c3b92ce9e75f6353104fc7f8e32fb9fdb2550ad0.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Stevie Trujillo <stevie.trujillo@xxxxxxxxx>

Nice work, I think this will fix my problems :) I have some comments - not
sure how many of them are sane.

I think the indent is wrong (mixed tabs + spaces) in ramoops_init. Tried to
fix it, but my email client just made it worse :p

With this patch, ramoops_platform_data takes precedence over module
parameters. Should it maybe be the other way?

I think you can just statically allocate ramoops_platform_data, since it's
only 2x(unsigned long)? You will use one more long in .data, but less in
.text?

Not related to the patch: Should the printks end with "\n"? If i do
printk(KERN_ERR "a"); printk(KERN_ERR "b"); I get two lines, but with
printk(KERN_ERR "a"); printk("b"); they end up on the same line. So if another
driver did printk without KERN_ after ramoops, they would end up on same line?

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Stevie Trujillo
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