Re: [PATCH v1 1/6] Add oops notification chain.

[Jeff Garzik]

On 01/25/2011 03:01 PM, Mike Waychison wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Greg KH<greg@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 04:24:39PM -0800, Mike Waychison wrote:
> > > From: Aaron Durbin<adurbin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Later firmware patches in this series would like to be able to be
> > > notified whenever an oops occurs on the system, so that it can be
> > > recorded in the boot log.
> > >
> > > This patch introduces a notifier_block called "oops_notifier_list"
> > > so that drivers can register to get called whenever an Oops is
> > > triggered.
> >
> > But we already have a panic notifier list.  Why create a new one?
> > What's wrong with the existing one that doesn't work properly for you?
>
> AFAICT, the panic notifier list doesn't get called on oops.

Have you tried playing with panic_on_oops ?

	Jeff


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