Re: [RFC v2] device coredump: add new device coredump class

[Johannes Berg]

On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 11:40 +0200, Jonas Gorski wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Can't you just send from the correct address? ;p

Not easily :)

> How about the following to avoid negative options:
> 
> config DEV_COREDUMP
>        bool "Enable device coredump" if EXPERT
>        default y if WANT_DEV_COREDUMP
>        help
>          Enable the device coredump mechanism for drivers wanting to
>          use it. Disabling allows for more sensitive systems or systems that
>          don't want to ever access the information to not have the code,
>          nor keep any data.
> 
>          If unsure, say Y.

Yeah, that seems reasonable. I guess I did the negative option because I
was thinking about the negative case ("I really don't want this!!!
111!!") :)

johannes

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