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



On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 01:48 +0000, 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 crash log will be overwritten before being
> copied elsewhere.
[...]

Forgot to mention: this also means that if e.g. efivars is flaky on some
system then normal reboot or shudown becomes flaky too.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
When you say `I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare ...
and say `Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'. - Linus Torvalds

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