Re: [PATCH] pstore/ram: Add support for dynamically allocated ramoops memory regions

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 22/06/2023 21:51, Elliot Berman wrote:
>> Boot 1.
>> Get address Foo.
>> Crash, write to Foo.
>> Boot 2.
>> Get address Bar, different from Foo.
>> Nothing found at Bar, so nothing populated in pstorefs; crash report from Boot 1 unavailable.
>>
>> I feel like there is something I don't understand about the Foo/Bar addresses in my example.
>>
> 
> I believe this is being added to support the QCOM SoC minidump feature. 
> Mukesh has posted it on the mailing lists here:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/1683133352-10046-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@xxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/1683133352-10046-10-git-send-email-quic_mojha@xxxxxxxxxxx/

And since this is coming bypassing DT maintainers and clearly against
Rob's feedback so far, that's a no.

> 
> Mukesh, could you comment whether this patch is wanted for us in the 
> version you have posted? It looks like maybe not based on the commit 
> text in patch #9.


Best regards,
Krzysztof