From: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:45:12 +0000 (-0700) Subject: relay: add buffer-only channels; useful for early logging X-Git-Tag: v2.6.27-rc1~177 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=20d8b67c06fa5e74f44e80b0a0fd68c8327f7c6a;p=pandora-kernel.git relay: add buffer-only channels; useful for early logging Allows one to create and use a channel with no associated files. Files can be initialized later. This is useful in scenarios such as logging in early code, before VFS is up. Therefore, such channels can be created and used as soon as kmem_cache_init() completed. This is needed by kmemtrace to do tracing in early kernel code. [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: build fix] Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu Cc: Tom Zanussi Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed