Re: [RESEND PATCH v4 -next] tty: serial: add panic serial helper

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 10:31:15AM +0800, Hongyu Xie wrote:
> 在 2023/6/15 18:17, Greg KH 写道:
> > On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 10:55:12AM +0800, Hongyu Xie wrote:
> > > It was inspired by kgdboc.
> > > 
> > > This is a debug module that allows you to get all kernel logs
> > > after panic.
> > > 
> > > Normally you need to attach a USB-to-UART tool or enable kdump
> > > before panic happens to get log from kernel after panic. If you
> > > didn't do that and kdump is not working, you can't get any log to
> > > know what happened before panic. If you have a USB-to-UART tool
> > > and the UART port on your computer is working. This module helps
> > > you to get all kernel log after panic() is called.
> > > 
> > > To use this, see Documentation/dev-tools/panic_serial_helper.rst.
> > > 
> > > Tested on an arm64 device.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Hongyu Xie <xiehongyu1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > 
> > Why  is this a RESEND?  What's wrong with the previous version?
> Nobody review v4 for over a week.

That's fine, but you need to say _why_ this is being resent, otherwise
we have no idea, and this just moves to the bottom of our review queue.

thanks,

greg k-h