[PATCH] vmcore-dmesg: do not use logged_chars as dmesg length
Dangyi Liu
dliu at redhat.com
Wed Oct 28 00:34:58 PDT 2015
On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 15:06 +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> Please use /* */ style comment, also it is not a bug because
> In theroy it is ok for only showing later dmesg after dmesg -c in
> current code.
> But crash utils and vmcore-dmesg in new log buf format support
> dumping all
> kernel messages which includes the part before dmesg -c. It is not
> harm to
> keep same behavior with them.
>
> So the comment should be changed to something like below:
> /*
> * To collect full dmesg including the part before `dmesg -c` is
> useful for
> * later debugging. Use same logic as what crash utility is using.
> */
OK, I'll update the comment and send again.
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