Re: [RFC] QR encoding for Oops messages

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 02:59:47PM -0700, Teodora Baluta wrote:
 > This feature encodes Oops messages into a QR barcode that is scannable by
 > any device with a camera.

 ...

 >  include/linux/print_oops.h |   11 +
 >  include/linux/qrencode.h   |  546 +++++++++++++
 >  kernel/Makefile            |    1 +
 >  kernel/panic.c             |    5 +
 >  kernel/print_oops.c        |  173 +++++
 >  kernel/printk/printk.c     |    9 +-
 >  lib/Kconfig                |    5 +
 >  lib/Kconfig.debug          |   11 +
 >  lib/Makefile               |    3 +
 >  lib/qr/Makefile            |    6 +
 >  lib/qr/bitstream.c         |  233 ++++++
 >  lib/qr/bitstream.h         |   37 +
 >  lib/qr/mask.c              |  320 ++++++++
 >  lib/qr/mask.h              |   39 +
 >  lib/qr/mmask.c             |  175 +++++
 >  lib/qr/mmask.h             |   36 +
 >  lib/qr/mqrspec.c           |  259 +++++++
 >  lib/qr/mqrspec.h           |  155 ++++
 >  lib/qr/qrencode.c          |  871 +++++++++++++++++++++
 >  lib/qr/qrencode.h          |  546 +++++++++++++
 >  lib/qr/qrinput.c           | 1834 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 >  lib/qr/qrinput.h           |  129 ++++
 >  lib/qr/qrspec.c            |  543 +++++++++++++
 >  lib/qr/qrspec.h            |  178 +++++
 >  lib/qr/rscode.c            |  325 ++++++++
 >  lib/qr/rscode.h            |   38 +
 >  lib/qr/split.c             |  331 ++++++++
 >  lib/qr/split.h             |   44 ++
 >  28 files changed, 6860 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

That's a ton of code we're adding into one of the most fragile parts of the kernel.

A lot of what libqrencode does would seem to be superfluous to the requirements
here, as we don't output kernel oopses in kanji for eg, and won't care about
multiple versions of the qr spec.

How much of this could we drop ?

	Dave