[PATCH v4 00/21] Add Qualcomm Minidump kernel driver related support

[Linus Walleij]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 1:12 AM Rob Herring <robh+dt at kernel.org> wrote:

> My bigger issue with this whole series is what would this all look
> like if every SoC vendor upstreamed their own custom dumping
> mechanism. That would be a mess. (I have similar opinions on the
> $soc-vendor hypervisors.)

I agree with Rob's stance.

I think it would be useful to get input from the hwtracing developers
(Alexander and Mathieu) who faced this "necessarily different" issue
with all the hwtrace mechanisms and found a way out of it. I suspect
they can have an idea of how this should be abstracted.

Yours,
Linus Walleij