From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Olson Subject: Re: [PATCH 39/53] IB/qib: Add qib_trace.c Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:53:38 -0800 Message-ID: References: <20091119233655.30356.57433.stgit@chromite.mv.qlogic.com> <20091119234021.30356.77098.stgit@chromite.mv.qlogic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Roland Dreier Cc: Ralph Campbell , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Roland Dreier wrote: | I don't think random PCI device drivers hooking into the panic notifier | chain is really a good idea, so probably ripping this out for now is the | best thing to do. It's extremely useful to have this, otherwise no trace info gets out when the system panics (one of the big reasons you want tracing in the first place). As best as I can tell, the panic hooks are intended for just this kind of thing. If there's some other mechanism, we'd be happy to use it. Dave Olson dave.olson-h88ZbnxC6KDQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html