Re: [PATCH] efi: Avoid sysfs spew on reboot and panic

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Wed Sep 21 2011 - 08:40:27 EST


On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:31:40AM +0800, Chen Gong wrote:
> > mutex_lock(&psinfo->buf_mutex);
> > memcpy(psinfo->buf, buf, size);
> >- id = psinfo->write(type, 0, size, psinfo);
> >+ id = psinfo->write(type, 0, KMSG_DUMP_UNKNOWN, size, psinfo);
>
> I can't say it is wrong because no real caller for this function, but I can't
> say it is right, yet. KMSG_DUMP_UNKNOWN here looks too arbirary. Do you have
> any reason to use this type here ?

If a function calls pstore_write() directly then we have no type to
associate with it. It seems worth making this explicit.

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