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Commit 4b23aff0 authored by Richard Purdie's avatar Richard Purdie Committed by David Woodhouse
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[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device


Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes.
These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a
syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash.

This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log
buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages
are obtained by registering a console driver and checking
oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the
chances of a saving messages.

To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x
is the mtd device number to use).

Signed-off-by: default avatarRichard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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