From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marco Stornelli Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] panic-note: Annotation from user space for panics Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:00:17 +0100 Message-ID: <4AFC4D31.2000101@gmail.com> References: <20091112021322.GA6166@dvomlehn-lnx2.corp.sa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2CHrgDH4HW6FM980PqSBEx2//nzOzApKIoS8pF9B0YY=; b=o5YTAuzYeyUo8lkgr5VHZJdZ5ssRkaI/Mpb8kKkTUJ8wDOuyB7AB+4g8TFOlaB+HJX /RWivKAqJoMusk9+8Qv47lHEiSYFiM0EP7Kaco0R05q+bzJhc55V1U1pfbnq/4kqzbsK 8YOtm3U+2f/hmBttciwUthJPW+80qrGZY9zQ0= 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, mpm@selenic.com, paul.gortmaker@windriver.com Sincerely, I don't understand why we should involve the kernel to gather this kind of information when we can use other (user-space) tools, only to have "all" in a single report maybe? I think it's a bit weak reason to include this additional behavior in the kernel. David VomLehn ha scritto: > 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. > Marco