Re: early_printk accessing __log_buf

[Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>]

On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 03:47 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 7/24/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:12:56 -0400 Robin Getz wrote:
> > > On Tue 24 Jul 2007 14:12, Andrew Morton pondered:
> > > > Oh well, it sounds like we need the super-duper fast version.  Keep it
> > > > as simple as possible, please.
> > >
> > > What about:
> > >
> > > int log_buf_copy(void *dest, int idx, size_t n);
> > >
> > > starting at index idx - copy n bytes to dest, return the number of bytes
> > > copied (in case there are not n bytes in the log_buf yet).
> >
> > Sounds sensible.  I'd make it return size_t and take a char* arg though.
> > Or just use `int' - size_t is a bit of a pain and this is all kernel-internal
> > anwyay.
> 
> attached
> -mike

why use attachment? You can just paste your patch in the email.

Thanks
- Bryan Wu
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