From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Mackall Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 21/22] netoops: Add user-programmable boot_id Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:42:37 -0600 Message-ID: <1292362957.3446.851.camel@calx> References: <20101214212846.17022.64836.stgit@mike.mtv.corp.google.com> <20101214213048.17022.58746.stgit@mike.mtv.corp.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20101214213048.17022.58746.stgit-tzAwxxnF6Tt6FDdRrpk8kO4/NqBCd+6Q@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Mike Waychison Cc: simon.kagstrom-vI6UBbBVNY+JA8cjQkG2/g@public.gmane.org, davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org, nhorman-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org, adurbin-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, chavey-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, Greg KH , netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Am=E9rico?= Wang , akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org, linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 13:30 -0800, Mike Waychison wrote: > Add support for letting userland define a 32bit boot id. This is useful > for users to be able to correlate netoops reports to specific boot > instances offline. This sounds a lot like the pre-existing /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id that's used by kerneloops.org. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.