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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:12:14 -0700
From: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/11] Merge ram_console into pstore
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On 06/13/2012 05:05 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 06:17:48AM -0700, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
>> The old ram_console driver is removed. This might probably cause
>> some pain for out-of-tree code, as it would need to be adjusted...
>> but "no pain, no gain"? :-) Though, if there's some serious resistance,
>> we can probably postpone the last two patches.
> What out-of-tree code would care about this?
I think he's referring to the persistent_ftrace work in the Android tree.

Anton did send out patches to try to get equivalent functionality 
working with pstore, but I don't know if Colin or anyone else from the 
Android team has had a chance to review it and make sure its sufficient.

thanks
-john

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