Re: [PATCH 02/26] pstore: add flags

[Tatulea, Dragos]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Luck, Tony <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I wonder if the default should be to not show headers, and to add this
>> flag to the backends that want the pstore-added header. I think the
>> more common case going forward will to be without headers since
>> backends should arguably storing metadata themselves.
>
> Perhaps just add the headings when pstore breaks a dump into
> pieces because of a back-end size limitation. I.e. if there is only
> one piece, then no headings. If there are two or more, include
> a heading to aid with putting the pieces together later.
>
But how do you determine the kmsg data size without doing a
kmsg_dump_get_buffer beforehand?

Thanks,
Dragos
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