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Subject: RE: [PATCH 3/6] pstore: Add persistent function tracing
Thread-Topic: [PATCH 3/6] pstore: Add persistent function tracing
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> We store the log in a binary format and then decode it at read time.

What are the advantages of this compared to creating the human
readable text and saving a blob of text?

What does this "binary format" look like?  Will it ever change?
Remember that we may reboot to a different kernel - so we have
to be really sure that the newer (or older) version can do the decode.

-Tony
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