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From:   Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To:     Stefan M Schaeckeler <sschaeck@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: mtdoops: optionally dump boottime
Date:   Sun, 20 May 2018 10:17:05 +0200
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Stefan,

Am Sonntag, 20. Mai 2018, 05:39:40 CEST schrieb Stefan M Schaeckeler:
> Optionally dump boottime on the mtd device in the form of
> 
> <0>[   0.000000] Boot time mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss
> 
> Time-stamps of oops messages are in seconds since boottime. Recording also
> the boottime helps correlating oopses with other events having occured at
> the same time. This correlation will be otherwise lost after (multiple)
> reboots.

I get the use-case, but why is this only for mtdoops?
IMHO this needs to go into generic code such that all kmsg dumpers can
benefit from it.

Thanks,
//richard