Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 14:49:50 -0500
From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel <joern@logfs.org>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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        Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Add blockconsole version 1.1 (try 2)
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On Tue, 5 March 2013 18:36:41 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> Another thing I noticed is that the panic handler calls bcon_write(),
> and it doesn't write to the device by itself.  Is it really supposed
> to work?

Clearly it is supposed to work.  In reality it sometimes does and
sometimes does not.  Patches to improve the success rate are welcome.

> Meanwhile I hacked the code to allow it being built as a module.
> If anyone is interested, I'll send a patch series.  It's pretty
> hackish, so likely need more brush up, though.

I am interested.

Jörn

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