Bug#703386: kmsg_dump is too eager to dump kernel log

2013-03-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 01:48 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > - In the normal shutdown/reboot case there is generally nothing > interesting to see after whatever was saved in the system log. Since > there is often only space for one kernel log dump, this also increases > the probability that a c

Bug#703386: kmsg_dump is too eager to dump kernel log

2013-03-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: src:linux Version: 3.2.39-2 Severity: important Tags: patch upstream fixed-upstream kmsg_dump can store the last kernel log messages using any of various 'dumper' functions in case of a crash, reboot, etc. Typically they will be written to flash; on EFI systems they can be stored in EFI