From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Mackall Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] panic-note: Annotation from user space for panics Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:06:51 -0600 Message-ID: <1258049211.10621.40.camel@calx> References: <20091112021322.GA6166@dvomlehn-lnx2.corp.sa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20091112021322.GA6166@dvomlehn-lnx2.corp.sa.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: David VomLehn Cc: linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, dwm2@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paul.gortmaker@windriver.com On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 21:13 -0500, David VomLehn wrote: > Allows annotation of panics to include platform information. It's no big > deal to collect information, but way helpful when you are collecting > failure reports from a eventual base of millions of systems deployed in > other people's homes. I'd like to hear a bit more use case motivation on this feature. Also, why do you want more than a page? -- http://selenic.com : development and support for Mercurial and Linux