[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device

Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes.
These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a
syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash.

This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log
buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages
are obtained by registering a console driver and checking
oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the
chances of a saving messages.

To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x
is the mtd device number to use).

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/Makefile b/drivers/mtd/Makefile
index 451adcc52b3c..024d0e5e3e5d 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/mtd/Makefile
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_NFTL)		+= nftl.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_INFTL)             += inftl.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_RFD_FTL)           += rfd_ftl.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SSFDC)             += ssfdc.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_MTD_OOPS)          += mtdoops.o
 
 nftl-objs               := nftlcore.o nftlmount.o
 inftl-objs              := inftlcore.o inftlmount.o