RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net-next 13/14] qed: FW 8.42.2.0 debug features

Michal Kalderon
2020-01-22T16:41:15Z

> From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 6:15 PM
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> On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 04:03:04PM +0000, Michal Kalderon wrote:
> > > From: linux-rdma-owner@vger.kernel.org <linux-rdma-
> > > owner@vger.kernel.org> On Behalf Of Jakub Kicinski
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> > > On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 17:26:26 +0200, Michal Kalderon wrote:
> > > > Add to debug dump more information on the platform it was
> > > > collected from (kernel version, epoch, pci func, path id).
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> > > Kernel version and epoch don't belong in _device_ debug dump.
> > This is actually very useful when customers provide us with a debug-dump
> using the ethtool-d option.
> > We can immediately verify the linux kernel version used.
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> Why can't they give you "uname -a" output?
Unfortunately, history has shown us that in many cases even though requested uname -a is not
Provided, or worse, provided but does not match the actual kernel run on.
Having this information in the dump helps us and provides us with more confidence than uname -a output.

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