Re: [PATCH 2/6] ramoops: Move to fs/pstore/ram.c

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed May 16 2012 - 09:17:53 EST


On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 05:43:08AM -0700, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> Since ramoops was converted to pstore, it has nothing to do with character
> devices nowadays. Instead, today it is just a RAM backend for pstore.
>
> The patch just moves things around. There are a few changes were needed
> because of the move:
>
> 1. Kconfig and Makefiles fixups, of course.
>
> 2. In pstore/ram.c we have to play a bit with MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX, this
> is needed to keep user experience the same as with ramoops driver
> (i.e. so that ramoops.foo kernel command line arguments would still
> work).
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/ramoops.txt | 2 +-
> drivers/char/Kconfig | 9 --
> drivers/char/Makefile | 1 -
> drivers/char/ramoops.c | 362 --------------------------------------------
> fs/pstore/Kconfig | 14 ++
> fs/pstore/Makefile | 3 +
> fs/pstore/ram.c | 362 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/pstore_ram.h | 17 +++
> include/linux/ramoops.h | 17 ---
> 9 files changed, 397 insertions(+), 390 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 drivers/char/ramoops.c
> create mode 100644 fs/pstore/ram.c
> create mode 100644 include/linux/pstore_ram.h
> delete mode 100644 include/linux/ramoops.h

This patch fails to apply to my staging-next tree due to problems with
drivers/char/Kconfig and drivers/char/ramoops.c. What tree are you
making this patch against?

> --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig
> @@ -585,15 +585,6 @@ config DEVPORT
>
> source "drivers/s390/char/Kconfig"
>
> -config RAMOOPS
> - tristate "Log panic/oops to a RAM buffer"
> - depends on HAS_IOMEM
> - depends on PSTORE

This "depends on PSTORE" line is not in my staging-next tree, where did
it come from?

I'm guessing that because of this, is why the other conflict happens,
right?

Any ideas on what I can do to resolve it? As you are moving a file, I
want to make sure I move the correct version of it :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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